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At the very least, you have the moral right to do so. If you're concerned about the legalities, contact your institutions' legal department - this is what they'
by aftbit 12y ago
At the very least, you have the moral right to do so. If you're concerned about the legalities, contact your institutions' legal department - this is what they're paid for.
- SEMW 12y agoInstitutions' legal departments are in the business of minimising legal risk to their employers. There's no upside to them to give the go-ahead to an academic asking 'can I do X' for X dubiously compliant even if probably low-risk, since if they do and then a journal does get up-in-arms about it, they assumed responsibility. Their saying 'no' has no such risk to them. So they're incentivised to err on the conservative side.
- jonathaneisen 12y agoAgreed. I can't imagine UC Davis' legal department being much help here other than to say "Don't do that."