Yes, but think of all the money they miss due to your pirating of their paper ;) It's the typical discussion about whether piracy of copyrighted material leads to loss or gain of revenue. There are a lot of models here, but not necessarily well-validated.
Anyway, if people want to read your papers and cannot get them from ResearchGate, I'm sure they can find them on another online collection, a hub of some sort ;) Cheers, Robbie > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernhard Rupp [mailto:hofkristall...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 13:23 > To: 'Robbie Joosten'; CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: RE: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press > > Agreed, but for 10 years old papers this seems a bit of overkill.... > > > > From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> On Behalf Of Robbie > Joosten > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 12:11 > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press > > > > Were they open access papers? If they were, than OUP is being too > aggressive (IMO), but otherwise it makes sense. I also find the ResearchGate > is rather aggressive in bugging you to upload papers that are readily > available > from the publisher. The whole business bit in scientific publishing is a > necessary (?) evil, but I guess if given the choice one should publish > somewhere where you as an author retain copyright. > > > > Cheers, > > Robbie > > > > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of > Bernhard Rupp > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 11:42 > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press > > > > Hi Fellows, > > > > just an advisory that Oxford University Press is pretty aggressive in > > enforcing copyright - I had to remove 2 Bioinformatics papers > > from ResearchGate. > > > > Fortunately, authors have choices, too.... > > > > Cheers, BR > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Bernhard Rupp > > http://www.hofkristallamt.org/ > > b...@hofkristallamt.org > > +1 925 209 7429 > > +43 676 571 0536 > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Many plausible ideas vanish > > at the presence of thought > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
