[GOAL] BLOG: Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Hello all,

Our latest blog on Unlocking Research is looking at the issue of press 
embargoes.

Below is a teaser from "Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows" - 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653

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Something has been rumbling under the surface in the repository world 
recently, at least in the UK. Over the past six months or so, the Office 
of Scholarly Communication has had some fraught conversations with 
researchers who are terrified that their papers will be 'pulled' from 
publication by the journal. The reason is because some information about 
the upcoming paper is publicly available.

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Our researchers are concerned that having the metadata about an article 
available means that publishers will consider this a breach of embargo 
and will pull the publication. Note that the Author’s Accepted 
Manuscript of the article itself (or the data files, in case of 
datasets) is locked down and the information about the volume, issue and 
pages are missing as the work is not yet published.

The researchers are worried because there is a need for publication in 
high profile journals such as/Nature/for their careers and if a work was 
to be pulled from publication this would have huge implications for 
them. This has caused a challenge for us – clearly we do not wish to 
threaten our researchers’ publication prospects, but we are also bound 
by the requirements of the HEFCE policy.

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Comments welcomed.

Danny

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