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

[Ulrich Herb]

very interesting news, I also blogged about it (https://www.scinoptica.com/2017/06/apa-starts-monitoring-unauthorized-internet-posting-of-published-articles/). To me it is a bit unclear whether only publishing on unauthorized servers and publishing of unauthorized versions is pursued, or also the omission of the copyright statement, the omission of the publisher's DOI and the absence of the note regarding the consistency of the Open Access version and the formally published version.

Best

Ulrich


 
> Richard Poynder <richard.poynder at cantab.net> hat am 16. Juni 2017 um 09:16 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> 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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> 
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