[ciência aberta]Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate

[Katia Cuba]

Na forma de escrita colaborativa,  recebi do IREX esta semana:
Open- data e internet livre:

(Why) is it important for open-data practitioners and internet-freedom advocates to articulate and embrace their shared priorities and interests?
Many of the goals of these movements overlap, and since there is strength in numbers they may have a greater impact. There are times when these two movements come into conflict - often times around issues of privacy. Identifying these up front would beneficial to both groups. —Daniel O’Maley
Similar to what Dan already said - there's power in collective action. If both groups can come together and fight/demand for shared priority areas, the higher the likelihood governments/the public will listen. —Maiko Nakagaki
What challenges do open-data practitioners and internet-freedom advocates share?
Both movements encounter difficulties in terms of getting governments to do more than just provide lip service to their goals. They both need to develop broad-based political support from populations. This entails communicating clearly what the social benefits to society are from Internet freedom and open data policies. —Daniel O’Maley
How is internet freedom an enabler or ally for open-data efforts?
Internet freedom enables open data efforts because an open Internet allows data to circulate in ways that are not restricted by governments and/or proprietary standards. Open data is particularly useful when it can be shared and analysed cross-nationally. Attempts to restrict Internet freedom also have the impact of making it harder to collect open data and to share it. —Daniel O’Maley
What literature exists at the intersection of open data and internet freedom?
Excellent question. I would love to see these resources once they are collected. Also, my organization, the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), would be very interested in partnering on research along these lines if someone has a clear idea of type of research would strengthen these efforts. We are particularly interested in how both Internet freedom and open data improve the overall media ecosystem so that citizens have access to high-quality info. —Daniel O’Maley
How can open data support internet freedom and internet governance? What specific examples come to mind?



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> On Oct 7, 2017, at 2:50 PM, Sarita Albagli <sarita.albagli em gmail.com> wrote:
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> Publicado en Times Higher Education: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/publishers-seek-removal-millions-papers-researchgate
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> Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate
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> Academic social network accused of infringing copyright on a massive scale
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> October 5, 2017
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> Leading publishers are stepping up their fight against ResearchGate by ordering the academic social network to take down papers that they say infringe copyright.
> The move could see millions of articles removed from the site, as the publishers say up to 40 per cent of papers on ResearchGate are copyrighted.
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> Do academic social networks share academics’ interests?
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> James Milne, a spokesman for the group of five  academic publishers, which includes Elsevier, Wiley and Brill, said that the first batch of take-down notices would be sent “imminently”.
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> “We’re not doing this in any way against the researchers, we’re doing this against ResearchGate,” he told Times Higher Education. ​The site was “clearly hosting and happily uploading material that they know they don’t have the licence or copyrights” to, and was “refusing to work with us to solve that problem”, he added. 
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> According to a survey of academics released last year, Berlin-based ResearchGate is by some way the world’s biggest academic social network, used by about 60 per cent of academics, particularly in the physical and life sciences, and has raised nearly $90 million (£68 million) in                     funding from investors, according to the website Crunchbase.
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> Publishers are seeing “anecdotal” evidence that the availability of papers on the site is eating into their revenues, said Dr Milne. “We have heard during the subscriptions renewal process that librarians are occasionally referencing ResearchGate as an alternative to resubscribing to journals,” he said.
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> He attacked ResearchGate as being “backed by hundreds of millions of dollars [from venture capitalists,] who are seeking to make a profit from what [ResearchGate] do, which is upload copyright infringed material”.
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> “They put nothing back into the process for generating and validating and curating all that material,” he said.
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> The publisher Elsevier drew a backlash from many academics in 2013 when it told users of Academia.edu, a rival to ResearchGate, to take down papers to which it had rights. Dr Milne stressed that this time, the publishers would not directly send take-down notices to academics. “We will work with ResearchGate on this, not researchers,” he said, although the organisation would be communicating “en masse” with academics about how they can share their work properly.
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> But for the publishers, sending out mass take-down notices is not a permanent solution. “That in itself doesn’t solve the problem, because every day ResearchGate is uploading more and more material,” said Dr Milne, trapping publishers in a “perpetual loop” of having to identify infringing papers. He argued that this would be confusing for researchers, as “one day there’s content, and the next day there isn’t”, he said.
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> Elsevier and the American Chemical Society are therefore also taking ResearchGate to court where they hope to obtain a ruling that would stop ResearchGate “scraping content off the web, uploading it...and asking researchers to claim it” so that infringing material “is not in the public domain”, he explained. The court claim would be lodged in Europe, he said.
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> A ResearchGate spokeswoman declined to comment. The company’s founder and chief executive, Ijad Madisch, has previously said that he “wouldn’t mind” if copyrighted material was removed from the site, as researchers could continue to share papers privately.
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