Authors Peeved by APA’s Article Takedown Pilot

In an effort to crack down on unauthorized postings of journal articles, the American Psychological Association is policing the Internet for scientists sharing their own work.

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Update (June 16): The American Psychological Association (APA) issued a news release yesterday (June 15) stating that it will be focusing its journal monitoring and takedown pilot program solely on piracy websites and will no longer target individual authors with Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices of copyright infringement.

“We regret that our recent takedown messages upset some of our authors, who are not the target of the program,” Jasper Simons, APA executive publisher, says in the release. “Our goal remains to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record and stop the illegal sharing of content on piracy sites. We support ...

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