Please note: (This was sent to staff and postgrads by the Research Office :
The
ResearchGate (RG) network https://www.researchgate.net was founded in 2008 and currently has over 3 million
researchers registered. 450 Rhodes University affiliated researchers are amongst
these. It is possible to upload the full-text of articles to an RG
profile and many researchers have done this.
This is problematic if authors make available the
published version of journal articles in infringement of publishers’ copyright
regulations. To ascertain whether an article may legally be deposited in
RG it is essential that authors check publisher copyright policies. This
can be done on the Sherpa/Romeo website which summarises permissions that are
normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
The Rhodes Research Office has recently heard that
authors may be sued by publishers if their uploads to RG are in breach of
copyright.
Please share this information with your postgraduate
students, many of whom have RG profiles.
Please remember that your research (articles,
conference papers, etc.) can be shared with others via the Rhodes Institutional
Repository http://eprints.ru.ac.za/.
For more information on RG read the following:
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