What happened when a professor was accused of sharing his own work on his website

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-11-08

Summary:

"Like many academics, William Cunningham, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, shares his own articles -- published and soon-to-be -- on his website. And like most academics, he does so in the interest of science, not personal profit.

So Cunningham and hundreds of his colleagues were recently irked by a takedown notice he received from the American Psychological Association, telling him that the articles he had published through the organization and then posted on his website were in violation of copyright law. The notice triggered a chain of responses -- including a warning from his website platform, WordPress, that multiple such violations put the future of his entire website at risk. And because the APA had previously issued similar takedown notices, the threat of losing his website seemed real to Cunningham.

In response, psychologists started a petition to the APA, saying that if it didn’t stop policing authors’ personal websites for the sharing of science, then it needed to pay peer reviewers $300 for each article review...."

Link:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/23/what-happened-when-professor-was-accused-sharing-his-own-work-his-website

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Tags:

oa.new oa.copyright oa.apa oa.psychology oa.societies oa.takedowns oa.petitions oa.signatures oa.ssh

Date tagged:

11/08/2019, 13:25

Date published:

11/08/2019, 08:25