Copyright and systematic reviews: do researchers have to break the rules to produce good quality research? – UK Copyright Literacy

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-02-04

Summary:

"...I was commissioned to write this blog as the result of a twitter conversation I had with UK Copyright Literacy over a blog post on the ACRLog. It details a discussion around why academics consistently break copyright and licensing rules. It’s a good post, which brings up many important points. However, nowhere does it discuss the realities of trying to do research ... I believe that copyright and licensing rules have not kept pace with technology and the reason many academics break the rules is because it is impossible to complete their research without doing so.

As a librarian I am caught in the middle. Can we tell academics that in order to conduct a systematic review, the balance of risk is such that they can break the rules to complete their study? If so, how can we then tell the same academic that they can’t email a PDF to someone, or upload a chapter to their course site? Like many others, we are working with academics to encourage them to publish open access. However, this is a solution for newly published information, it doesn’t help people like myself and my research group who are trying our best to source already published information in order to improve health across the world.

I’d be really interested to read everyone’s advice and comments."

Link:

https://copyrightliteracy.org/2018/02/02/copyright-and-systematic-reviews-do-researchers-have-to-break-the-rules-to-produce-good-quality-research/

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Date tagged:

02/04/2018, 14:44

Date published:

02/04/2018, 09:53