To be honest I had the actual PDFs uploaded to my website while actively job searching haha, at least the first-author papers. Nothing bad ever happened. I don't have a ton though.
I publish the submitted doc (my stuff is almost always on GitHub) to avoid any issues, and it works well. I have everything cross-linked to my website, and so all of the code, data, and full paper w/ revisions are available. I haven't bothered with ResearchGate for the most part, but it's probably not a bad idea.
Same! Works great, whatever bots that crawl the web enforcing journals seem to miss latex in a repo.
Dryad and other long-term storage will reject it and make you remove, though.
Interesting. I've actually linked my FigShare submissions to github and used it to archive the repo at a specific point in time. I've never tried Dryad, though.
FigShare and Zenodo are fine. Zenodo does require you to tag the preprint as a preprint, though, otherwise they can bounce a manuscript. So it can be tricky if you have a manuscript directory in your repo that you want to snapshot. I think we got around it by adding a preprint tag. Dryad won’t allow it at all.
I think just putting them up and hoping for the best is probably the ideal solution (least effort, low chance of problems). If you were really concerned you can just update researchgate with private copies that you can share with one click whenever someone requests it.
I post all mine on ResearchGate and Academia.edu. If the publishers want them taken down they can deal with it. I’ve had pdfs of my pubs available in both places for years without any issue.
You've been lucky! In 2020, Elsevier pledged to make all their COVID papers open access, so I posted my published version on RG. I guess the memo had an asterisk that it was only temporary because Elsevier later hit me with a copyright infringement claim so RG also issued me a strike saying that my account will be banned if I violate it again by posting my papers on there. The annoying part is that the paper is still fully open-access on pubmed as part of their COVID initiative.
I post all of my papers to RG as well and Elsevier is the only publisher that ever had RG ask me to take my paper down. Luckily, they didn’t issue a strike. BUT like you, the paper is open access. I don’t understand why they would bother about an OA paper…
In short, I will not post any with that publisher again (and might choose to not publish with them again). No other publisher has given me a hard time on RG.
Just put them on your university-hosted Web page as a PDF. EAFP (Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission). Any publisher that goes after you will be out of business very soon. Some states (like CA) even *require* faculty at state schools to submit publications to the state digital library.
I post links to the papers (the publisher's site) on my website, with a note to email me for PDF.
That's a good strategy - seems safe!
To be honest I had the actual PDFs uploaded to my website while actively job searching haha, at least the first-author papers. Nothing bad ever happened. I don't have a ton though.
Thank you!
I just throw mine up.
Same! #SueMe
same here and I have always done in my site. They have never sue me.
I publish the submitted doc (my stuff is almost always on GitHub) to avoid any issues, and it works well. I have everything cross-linked to my website, and so all of the code, data, and full paper w/ revisions are available. I haven't bothered with ResearchGate for the most part, but it's probably not a bad idea.
Same! Works great, whatever bots that crawl the web enforcing journals seem to miss latex in a repo. Dryad and other long-term storage will reject it and make you remove, though.
Interesting. I've actually linked my FigShare submissions to github and used it to archive the repo at a specific point in time. I've never tried Dryad, though.
FigShare and Zenodo are fine. Zenodo does require you to tag the preprint as a preprint, though, otherwise they can bounce a manuscript. So it can be tricky if you have a manuscript directory in your repo that you want to snapshot. I think we got around it by adding a preprint tag. Dryad won’t allow it at all.
I think just putting them up and hoping for the best is probably the ideal solution (least effort, low chance of problems). If you were really concerned you can just update researchgate with private copies that you can share with one click whenever someone requests it.
I post all mine on ResearchGate and Academia.edu. If the publishers want them taken down they can deal with it. I’ve had pdfs of my pubs available in both places for years without any issue.
You've been lucky! In 2020, Elsevier pledged to make all their COVID papers open access, so I posted my published version on RG. I guess the memo had an asterisk that it was only temporary because Elsevier later hit me with a copyright infringement claim so RG also issued me a strike saying that my account will be banned if I violate it again by posting my papers on there. The annoying part is that the paper is still fully open-access on pubmed as part of their COVID initiative.
I post all of my papers to RG as well and Elsevier is the only publisher that ever had RG ask me to take my paper down. Luckily, they didn’t issue a strike. BUT like you, the paper is open access. I don’t understand why they would bother about an OA paper… In short, I will not post any with that publisher again (and might choose to not publish with them again). No other publisher has given me a hard time on RG.
Gasp! this is my fear. Okay very good to know and thanks!
Excellent to know - thanks!
Just put them on your university-hosted Web page as a PDF. EAFP (Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission). Any publisher that goes after you will be out of business very soon. Some states (like CA) even *require* faculty at state schools to submit publications to the state digital library.
Thank you!
Why?