I wonder that is it legal to upload the full text of published journal articles on public servers such as Researchgate ?

Recently researchgate removed all the full text files from our RG profiles and started asking us to provide the full text again with a confirmation of copyright. Except the open access journals.

You generally dont have rights to upload the full text of the published articles even if you are an author.

I came across an article on "Nature.com"

Publishers threaten to remove millions of papers from ResearchGate (LINK BELOW)

http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-threaten-to-remove-millions-of-papers-from-researchgate-1.22793?WT.mc_id=SFB_NNEWS_1508_RHBox

i.e. the publication houses don't want to see their published articles available Freely on researchgate.

So, my question is simple ..

Should we remove all the full texts of our published articles from ResearchGate ?

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