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Several professors I know publish all their papers on their university/government lab hosted website and have never received any take down notices. When you use
by montecarl 11y ago
Several professors I know publish all their papers on their university/government lab hosted website and have never received any take down notices. When you use Google scholar to search for one of their papers there is a link directly to the pdf hosted by them. Many professors feel that the papers are theirs to redistribute as they wish even if copyright says otherwise. But I do understand why some authors might feel wary of this.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI think that that certain US government grant money prevents full copyright assignment. These professors are probably fully within their rights to self host copies of their work. This is why I said sometimes legal and sometimes a grey area..
- rsfern 11y agoIt depends on the publisher copyright agreement. With many closed journals, the researcher is free to post a preprint on a personal site or to something like arXiv, but not to post the final version with the journal's "value-added" layout and such.
- mcguire 11y agoThis is common in computer science and related fields (licensing agreements be damned), but much less so in others.