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by rirarobo 1912 days ago
Actually, this depends on the terms defined by each particular journal or conference to which the work is submitted. While things have gotten better in recent years, traditionally even distribution on personal websites is technically not allowed, just selectively enforced, again depending on the venue and even the exposure of the particular work or lab group.

When enforcement is more strict, researchers sometimes resort to hosting a draft of their manuscript, and not the final camera ready version.

Unfortunately, in many fields open access or even just personal hosting and is still uncommon, and the vast majority of papers remain behind paywalls.
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Vinnl 1912 days ago
Also depends on your jurisdiction. In the Netherlands, researchers are allowed to make their own works available to anyone six months after publication, regardless of their publisher's terms: https://www.openaccess.nl/en/in-the-netherlands/you-share-we...

Of course, it's not perfect since it still requires work on the part of the author, but all they have to do is give it to a university library and they'll make sure it's available as soon as it's allowed.

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logifail 1912 days ago
> all they have to do is give it to a university library

Give what? Their permission? The source document (pre-print) that went to the journal? The PDF of the published article?

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Vinnl 1911 days ago
The poster [1] refers to "the published version", so yes, the PDF of the published article. But Dutch researchers who are interested can probably best just get in touch with their library, who I'm sure will be able to tell them exactly what they need.

[1] https://www.openaccess.nl/sites/www.openaccess.nl/files/docu...

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logifail 1911 days ago
> "the published version", so yes, the PDF of the published article

I'm genuinely interested in how this works in practice. Also how do authors obtain a PDF of their published work other than from the publisher?

Would be great to hear from Dutch researchers (particularly those publishing in Elsevier journals...) on how well this procedure is working.

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Vinnl 1910 days ago
Unfortunately I'm not a researcher, but hopefully someone who is will try/has tried it out and can report back :)
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mjfl 1912 days ago
> researchers sometimes resort to hosting a draft of their manuscript, and not the final camera ready version.

and this is fine for most people.

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