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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>List members will perhaps be aware that the<span style='color:#222222;background:white'> American Psychological Association recently launched a “</span><span style='background:white'>pilot program<span style='color:#222222'>” 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. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'>(<a href="http://www.apa.org/pubs/authors/unauthorized-internet-posting.aspx">http://www.apa.org/pubs/authors/unauthorized-internet-posting.aspx</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'>There have been a number of articles about this e.g. here (<a href="http://retractionwatch.com/2017/06/14/researchers-protest-publishers-orders-remove-papers-websites/">http://retractionwatch.com/2017/06/14/researchers-protest-publishers-orders-remove-papers-websites/</a>) and here (<a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49670/title/Authors-Peeved-by-APA-s-Article-Takedown-Pilot/&utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scientist-Daily_2016">http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49670/title/Authors-Peeved-by-APA-s-Article-Takedown-Pilot/&utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scientist-Daily_2016</a>). </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'>Yesterday the APA announced that it is refocusing the program -- here (<a href="http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/06/curtailing-journal-articles.aspx?utm_content=1497568913&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter">http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/06/curtailing-journal-articles.aspx?utm_content=1497568913&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'>From that announcement: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'>“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'>“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222'>Richard Poynder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>