Regarding sharing of Emerald articles on researchgate

[Maneesha Singh]

Respected sir and group members,

II’ve been getting requests from researchers on RG. The full-text of a research article published by me and my supervisor was uploaded by my supervisor and is set to private, it’s only available on request. Can I just accept the requests or is there a risk to commit a copyright violation (the paper is not open access)?

I referred the guidelines of emerald and it gave the following results (attached herewith). The paper is in earlycite on the journal website. 

Is the researchgate's option of sharing privately covered under the head 'to individuals for personal use only'?

Kindly guide me regarding the same. Will be grateful!

Thanks and regards

Maneesha Singh 

[Ameen Khan]

Dear Maneesha,

If it is an open-access publication, then you can share the full article. However, if it is close access then it is not recommended to share. Even though some scholars share the full article on request to personal text, still it is unethical (My perception). 

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[Maneesha Singh]

Thank you for your response sir!

Noted with thanks.

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[Dr. Harmandeep Singh]

Dear Maneesha

The point is that every researcher does not have access to all premium journals, so if someone is showing interest in your work, you can share it for mutual benefit, which will boost your work. Otherwise, you can simply say no citing copyright.

However, lots of scholars used to share on request all the best 😇

Regards 

Dr. Harmandeep Singh
Assistant Professor

[Maneesha Singh]

Thank you for your response sir.

Appreciate the clarification.

I am only worried about if it can lead to any copyright issue?

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