Earlier today (or was it late last night?), I made separate posts about new work on aquatic microbial diversity, on the copyright issues when reporting on science on blogs and on general relationship between science publishers and blogs. Now, via Dileffante, I have learned about a combo of all those questions: when you are dealing with an enlightened organization, such as PLoS, magic can happen. Jonathan Eisen, author of one of the microbial genomics papers has, with no fear of copyright infringement, copied the entire paper on his blog. It is a first, isn't it?
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I cannot find examples of other people doing this but it seems so straightforward no? I am thinking of putting my other Open Access papers on my blog too.
I know a bunch of us wrote posts about our papers and included figures from the paper, but I believe you are the first to actually reprint the entire paper. If I ever get myself back on track I intend to publish only in Open Source journals and will certainly reprint my papers on my blog in addition to a "plain-English" post explaining what it is that I really did in my paper geared towards a more lay audience.
I can think of several instances when the author is an employee of the Yankee government and the paper, even when published in a for-profit journal, much less any of the professional society journals, is outside copyright. In that case, the entirety of the paper may be placed on a blog site, by the author or anyone. I know I have used the "loophole" a couple of times.