> how much of the plagiarism is to be expected when you're an academic
Last I checked academics have the same rights under copyright as the rest of us.
Last I checked academics have the same rights under copyright as the rest of us.
Another interesting case: works done by government contractors are eligible for copyright protection, and the copyright can be transferred to the government, which is, I think, how parts of OpenStack can be copyrighted by NASA. By that argument, professors (or anyone else) with government grants should definitely be able to copyright their work and keep copyright.
There's certainly an increasingly-popular argument that publicly-funded research work should be publicly accessible / open access, but there's no law or even norm about it yet.
JSTOR. Because you should pay for it twice.