Pharmaceutical

ResearchGate may have to remove millions of articles from their website as five publishers have created a coalition for forcing ResearchGate remove their articles from the scientific social site. The publishers are of the opinion that the site breaches their copyright. According to estimated, around 7 million papers could be affected, and that a first batch of take-down notices, for around 100,000 articles, would be sent out “imminently”. The members of the coalition, Elsevier and the American Chemical Society, are the first ones to file the lawsuit that might help them prevent the publishing of copyrighted material on ResearchGate in future. Even though the complaint ...