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Max-Planck-Institut • Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse 10 • 35043 Marburg • Germany Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
Research Group Leader
Department of Biogeochemistry
Tel.: +49 (0) 6421 178-700 / -701
Fax: +49 (0) 6421 178-709 / -999
brune@mpi-marburg.mpg.de
http://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/
Re: Why I will not upload our publications to ResearchGate
Dear Colleague:
Thank you for your interest in our work. The number of requests for full-text versions of
our publications through ResearchGate is ever increasing. This letter explains why I will
not upload PDFs of our publications to this platform.
The PDFs of our publications are available through the journal websites. Many of them are
freely available or open access; others are restricted to subscribers of the journal. In most
cases, the copyright to the material is with the publisher and not under my control. The
legal conditions for self-archiving (preprint, postprint, etc.) differ with every publisher.
ResearchGate conveniently places the full legal responsibility for any upload entirely on the
authors. I am neither willing nor do I have the time to control these aspects, including the
transfer to a preprint of any corrections that were made at the proof stage.
Therefore, I kindly ask you to download the official version of the requested publication
from the official journal website. The DOI is usually provided by ResearchGate and also
included in the publication list on our homepage (http://www.termites.de/brune/publ/). If
you do not have access to a particular journal, please contact me directly. I will always
fulfill personal requests for PDFs of any of our publications.
With best regards,
Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune
Research Group Leader
20 November 2014