Journal authors may not get pdfs of their articles
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"It seems that Sage provides authors with a proprietory application that allows one to print one's article on a single computer, but not save it or send it to colleagues. I guess it is just one more example of how commercial journal publishers rip off academic authors. First, they make money off of our unpaid research efforts, and second, they try to limit our own use of our intellectual products....I use the SPARC authors addendum, an attachment to copyright agreement with publishers....Make your work available as widely as possible, regardless of whether commercial publishers may want to limit the visibility of research they publish. Whose research is it anyway?"