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Re: Mirroring OA Content or Stealing it?

I would also be very interested to hear opinions of this: I am visiting Iran later this month to help facilitate a workshop of journal publishers from the region, and it would make a good topic for discussion

any feedback very welcome

Pippa

At 03:12 22/12/2005, Eric Hellman wrote:
The Iranian Ministry of Science, Research & Technology seems to be active
in what could be considered either mirroring or theft of free access
journal content.

Take a look at http://journals.iranscience.net/ They have copied in their
entirety copyrighted websites of a number of journals that provide
free-access content. They do not respect robots.txt restrictions. They
appear to encourage use of passwords to download non-free content. And
then they serve it all up for the word to see!

I would be interested to hear how some of the copied web sites, such as
Biomed Central , JAMA, or JBC feel about this "mirroring" of content,
which I presume is not illegal in Iran.

Eric

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