Seeking insights on (copyright) limits to sharing journal articles
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:09 pm
Now that BE allows sharing ...
I have been reading various postings on restrictions set by copyright or publishing rights that can/do/may limit how I should share journal articles. Here are a few that I find of highest importance.
https://www.howcanishareit.com
https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/ ... elines.pdf
https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing
What I especially gather reading between the lines and/or reading directly in other guidelines is this: You cannot post a journal article *where you are not an author* to shared drive and believe that, simply by limiting access to that shared drive, you are automatically protecting yourself from being held accountable for violating policies that should otherwise tell you that you cannot share the article. (... added note ... when you are an author, you can typically post to a private, by-invitation-only shared drive and/or send the journal article in response to a direct request).
What I also gather is that commercial citation managers such as Papers, Mendeley, Zotero, ... have somehow gotten permission to set up methods so that their users do not have to worry about whether they can or cannot share. We might simply call the approach to grant such permission as ... private groups. In private (invitation only) groups, you can share journal articles in their entirety even when you are not an author on the journal articles being shared. Or at least, this is what I gather so far.
My example is perhaps drawn to excess on lawyer-anxiety. As noted somewhere (paraphrased) ... You may actually be violating the sharing policies, but your activity level is below anything that will likely draw attention. Or perhaps also, even though how you share your journal articles is in violation to publishing guidelines, you are a mosquito hovering around over a pond of alligators.
In posting this, I simply want to put forth a framework for collecting information that might help me and others make more well-informed decisions about how we share journal articles using BE (and indeed even using Google Drive for that matter). For example, I would be glad to hear with supporting references that sharing journals with BE will raise absolutely no concerns only when you apply restriction XYZ .... e.g. only when you share the articles with team members who are at the same academic institute as you so that they have the same baseline access to the journal articles as you.
What insights do others have?
I have been reading various postings on restrictions set by copyright or publishing rights that can/do/may limit how I should share journal articles. Here are a few that I find of highest importance.
https://www.howcanishareit.com
https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/ ... elines.pdf
https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing
What I especially gather reading between the lines and/or reading directly in other guidelines is this: You cannot post a journal article *where you are not an author* to shared drive and believe that, simply by limiting access to that shared drive, you are automatically protecting yourself from being held accountable for violating policies that should otherwise tell you that you cannot share the article. (... added note ... when you are an author, you can typically post to a private, by-invitation-only shared drive and/or send the journal article in response to a direct request).
What I also gather is that commercial citation managers such as Papers, Mendeley, Zotero, ... have somehow gotten permission to set up methods so that their users do not have to worry about whether they can or cannot share. We might simply call the approach to grant such permission as ... private groups. In private (invitation only) groups, you can share journal articles in their entirety even when you are not an author on the journal articles being shared. Or at least, this is what I gather so far.
My example is perhaps drawn to excess on lawyer-anxiety. As noted somewhere (paraphrased) ... You may actually be violating the sharing policies, but your activity level is below anything that will likely draw attention. Or perhaps also, even though how you share your journal articles is in violation to publishing guidelines, you are a mosquito hovering around over a pond of alligators.
In posting this, I simply want to put forth a framework for collecting information that might help me and others make more well-informed decisions about how we share journal articles using BE (and indeed even using Google Drive for that matter). For example, I would be glad to hear with supporting references that sharing journals with BE will raise absolutely no concerns only when you apply restriction XYZ .... e.g. only when you share the articles with team members who are at the same academic institute as you so that they have the same baseline access to the journal articles as you.
What insights do others have?