<div dir="ltr">The Ingelfinger Rule is dead and buried. No publisher can require a researcher to keep their findings secret. They can report them at conferences and post their unrefereed preprints whenever they like. <div><br></div><div>(Authors can voluntarily comply with a press embargo on an accepted paper until publication, but that's irrelevant to HEFCE, which requires deposit within 3 months of acceptance: No <i>Nature</i> press embargo is anywhere near that long.)<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:14px">Harnad, S. (2000) Ingelfinger Over-Ruled: The Role of the Web in the Future of Refereed Medical Journal Publishing. Lancet Perspectives 256 (December Supplement): s16. </span><a href="http://cogprints.org/1703/" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:14px">http://cogprints.org/1703/</a></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>Closed access deposit of the author's final, accepted draft is absolutely none of the business of the publisher, has nothing to do with copyright, and certainly provides not the faintest of grounds for "pulling" a publication. Neither does public notice of a scientific conference and its papers (and abstracts).</div><div><br></div><div>HEFCE and HEFCE authors: Steer the course. This kind of FUD has been floated for decades now and deserves your contempt, not your concern.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are a couple of flashbacks from yesteryear:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#publisher-forbids">http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#publisher-forbids</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#10.Copyright">http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#10.Copyright</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Stevan Harnad</b><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Danny Kingsley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Hello all,<br>
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Our latest blog on Unlocking Research is looking at the issue of
press embargoes. <br>
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Below is a teaser from "Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows"
- <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653" target="_blank">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653</a><br>
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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.</span><br>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:'PT Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:24px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:'PT Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:24px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The researchers are
worried because there is a need for publication in high profile
journals such as<span> </span><em>Nature</em><span> </span>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.</p>
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