I understand there is a 25 year rule for research papers that means we can legally provide copies of research papers published prior to 1998 without seeking individual permissions.
If this is correct, we would like to use ResearchGate to provide a Repository for about 40 PDFs of old Research Papers that are now difficult to access but could be made easily accessible to reviewers and later to readers of a landmark paper we have written on - "The Development, Use and Shortcomings of The Head Injury Criterion (HIC) in Evaluating Head Injury Risk at Impact" - Authors - JM Davies, WA Wallace, AR Payne, CL Colton, OM Tomlin and P Brownson (see attached draft).
If it is possible for you to do this for us can you describe how to do it step by step please. I am a very active user of ResearchGate and I am hoping that you are able to help.
Angus Wallace
Please note that you wrote to the RG community, not to the RG staff. You may try to contact RG's support team at https://www.researchgate.net/contact. However, I doubt that they will do this for you. See https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/How+to+add+research for instructions how to add your own publications. But see also https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Copyright for considerations about copyright. As far as I know, there is no general 25 year rule allowing to "provide copies of research papers published prior to 1998 without seeking individual permissions".
ResearchGate is a social networking site that allows researchers to share publications, collaborate with others, and connect with colleagues. While ResearchGate can be a useful platform for sharing research papers, it is not designed to serve as a repository for research papers published before 1998.
Hi Angus, The copyright policies that govern what you can post in a repository and in what form are available from SherpaRomeo, a website that lists the policies of leading publishers. You can find it here [ https://v2Sherpa.ac.uk/romeo ]. I know that ResearchGate is preferred as a public space for researchers but the University of Nottingham also has a repository [ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk ] which might also achieve the results you want. Library staff will also be able to help you with any copyright issues. Once you have a persistent URL that links to the full text (copyright permittting) you can share that in any forum. Best Wishes, Matt.
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