» Elsevier Takedown Notices for Faculty Articles on UC Sites Office of Scholarly Communication

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-12-23

Summary:

"Elsevier recently sent DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices to some UC campuses, claiming that the availability of certain Elsevier journal articles posted on university websites infringes Elsevier copyrights. UC faculty might be wondering, what does this mean for me?  Am I at risk of receiving a takedown notice and, if so, what should I do? At this point, the takedown action only applies to local campus web pages like department sites, faculty profiles, or lab pages. This action does not currently apply to any content you may have posted to UC’s eScholarship Repository.  Read a recent article in the Washington Post on Elsevier’s takedown notice campaign. Elsevier has also been in the news for similar notices sent to academia.edu, a for-profit article sharing site. If you have not been notified by someone on your campus (e.g., a campus DMCA agent, someone in IT, etc.), your site is not currently the target of a takedown notice ..."

Link:

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2013/12/elsevier-takedown-notices/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.licensing oa.comment oa.elsevier oa.copyright oa.u.california oa.versions oa.takedowns oa.libre

Date tagged:

12/23/2013, 09:32

Date published:

12/23/2013, 04:32