Some commercial journals say you can "self archive" the author accepted manuscript version of your article on a "personal website" without an embargo. Is there some definition of what counts as a "personal website"?
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@cameronneylon @wragge they're basically trying to distinguish, as I have always understood it, between a site that just lists the paper for download and an institutional repository providing library-grade metadata.
Of course, such a distinction doesn't have to exist, but it would do in the case of many academics running their own websites.
@cameronneylon @wragge Yes, that was definitely the policy intention. It's also a matter of saying, 'Oh yes, academics can get it', but the second it's a customer who might have paid instead, that needs to be blocked.
@wragge I think in practice it means "whatever the legal team won't send you a nastygram about". There was talk at one point of providing "personal website" as pages within a university repository. I think Research Gate tried to argue they were just a personal website service provider at one point maybe?
But its a pretty meaningless distinction these days of course with search and discovery tools.
We're trying to get stronger language on the rights to self archive into publishing agreements and/or copyright exceptions that exist in some countries. Plus some employers have proactively required a license from the authors for the local repository for a long time (or claimed copyright for themselves)
But the whole thing is a bit of a mess and most of the strategies work for university-employed researchers but leave others a bit out in the cold