Is it legal or not to share our papers published in no Open access journal in researchgate?
Dear All,
RG is an academic forum. A simple no or yes is not sufficient.
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/52488/is-it-legal-to-add-your-publications-to-researchgate
please see this discussion
Dear All,
RG is an academic forum. A simple no or yes is not sufficient.
In this case you have to take a permission from the journal and maybe not accept. For the RG members can request the full paper from the author.
you cannot breach the copyright, if so then what is the fun of copyright and journal policy, so better to be bound to the copyright rather to be cunning,
To the best of my knowledge, all journals make provision for the 'version' of the manuscript that can be shared freely. It could be the 'uncorrected proof', the 'accepted manuscript' e.t.c.I think it is always better to abide by the rules of the journal.
I think you may share the uncorrected proof copy of your paper published in other journals in researchgate.
For non open access journal the author of accepted manuscript will sign a copyright transfer form. so, you cannot share full paper but you can share abstract and have discussion on the manuscript.
RG is not liable for violations of copyright agreements, and if an unauthorised version is 'mistakenly' loaded, it can be taken down.
@ Pavan Kumar some publishers allow you self-archive certain versions of your accepted manuscript afer about a year of publication, while others would insist that in addition to self arhiving in places like RG, you also include a statement referring readers to their website, where the full versions are archived
Navigating through the discussions that took place with this question my insight says, since the authors are abided by the copyright rules of a specific non-open access journal where the article has been published, only summary or abstract or partial dataset may serve the purpose in a public platform like RG. It is always better share the published paper by one to one basis or hyperlinking to other full length article archival websites.
Mr Saad Motahhir,
It depends on the rule, which is determined by the journal, for example which is given by Elsevier. Basically, it depends on what kind of access right you have to the journal. They said that it is commonly not allowed to share the paper publicly. Paper sharing may be okay through personal messages, based on a certain access right status.
Detailed information may be read in:
http://help.sciencedirect.com/flare/sdhelp_Left.htm#CSHID=home.htm|StartTopic=Content%2Fhome.htm|SkinName=svs_SD
In this page, you may search for "share paper", and select the article, entitled "Sharing publications (journal articles and book chapters)".
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