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<Apologies for cross posting><br>
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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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653">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="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color:
rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif;
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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="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color:
rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
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text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nature</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </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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Comments welcomed.<br>
<br>
Danny<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head, Office of Scholarly Communication
Cambridge University Library
West Road, Cambridge CB39DR
P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437
M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564
E: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a>
T: @dannykay68
B: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/</a>
S: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley">http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley</a>
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939</pre>
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