<Apologies for cross posting>
Hello all,
Our latest blog on Unlocking Research is looking at the issue of press
embargoes.
Below is a teaser from "Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows" -
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653
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Something has been rumbling under the surface in the repository world
recently, at least in the UK. Over the past six months or so, the Office
of Scholarly Communication has had some fraught conversations with
researchers who are terrified that their papers will be 'pulled' from
publication by the journal. The reason is because some information about
the upcoming paper is publicly available.
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Our researchers are concerned that having the metadata about an article
available means that publishers will consider this a breach of embargo
and will pull the publication. Note that the Author’s Accepted
Manuscript of the article itself (or the data files, in case of
datasets) is locked down and the information about the volume, issue and
pages are missing as the work is not yet published.
The researchers are worried because there is a need for publication in
high profile journals such as/Nature/for their careers and if a work was
to be pulled from publication this would have huge implications for
them. This has caused a challenge for us – clearly we do not wish to
threaten our researchers’ publication prospects, but we are also bound
by the requirements of the HEFCE policy.
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Comments welcomed.
Danny
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Dr Danny Kingsley
Head, Office of Scholarly Communication
Cambridge University Library
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