[GOAL] American Psychological Association "pilot program" of takedown notices

[Richard Poynder]

List members will perhaps be aware that the American Psychological
Association recently launched a "pilot program" in which it has been issuing
takedown notices to authors who have posted the final published PDFs of
their articles on personal websites and third-party sites. 

(http://www.apa.org/pubs/authors/unauthorized-internet-posting.aspx).

 

There have been a number of articles about this e.g. here
(http://retractionwatch.com/2017/06/14/researchers-protest-publishers-orders
-remove-papers-websites/) and here
(http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49670/title/Authors-P
eeved-by-APA-s-Article-Takedown-Pilot/
<http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49670/title/Authors-P
eeved-by-APA-s-Article-Takedown-Pilot/&utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scient
ist-Daily_2016> &utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scientist-Daily_2016). 

 

Yesterday the APA announced that it is refocusing the program -- here
(http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/06/curtailing-journal-articles.
aspx?utm_content=1497568913
<http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/06/curtailing-journal-articles.
aspx?utm_content=1497568913&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter>
&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter).

 

>From that announcement: 

 

"We are refocusing this program to target commercial piracy sites," said APA
Executive Publisher Jasper Simons. "We regret that our recent takedown
messages upset some of our authors, who are not the target of the program.
Our goal remains to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record and stop
the illegal sharing of content on piracy sites. We support the
non-commercial sharing of content by our authors in line with our posting
guidelines."

 

"We are sorry that we put the scholars in the middle," Simons said. "APA
welcomes and encourages the sharing of scientific research by APA authors.
We value our work with the scientific community and want to continue this
collaboration."

 

Under APA's publishing guidelines, authors are free to post the final
accepted, preformatted versions of their articles - the accepted manuscript
- on their personal websites, university repositories and author networking
sites without an embargo. However, any posted manuscripts must include a
note linking to the final published article, the authoritative document.

 

Richard Poynder

 

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