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All journals I have ever published to (in theoretical physics) explicitly allow the authors to put the journal PDF of their article on their personal or institu

by goerz 5y ago

All journals I have ever published to (in theoretical physics) explicitly allow the authors to put the journal PDF of their article on their personal or institutional websites. They also allow to have a "reprint" (identical content to published version, but not the exact same PDF) to be on the arXiv. I'm not aware of any journals in the field that don't allow this. I'm sure they exist, but I would not consider them for publication.

logifail 5y ago
> explicitly allow the authors to put the journal PDF of their article on their personal or institutional websites Q: Where is an author supposed to _obtain_ the final, "official" journal-approved PDFs in order to republish them? Unless I head for sci-hub, I don't have any of mine :(
- goerz 5y ago
  You usually have institutional access. If not, I suppose you can ask the publisher to email you the pdf. Or you might be able to download it from the the submission website. I don’t understand: you really don’t have PDFs of your own papers? Did you leave academia and delete your data?
  - logifail 5y ago
    > You usually [..] I suppose [..] you might The big publishers have worked very hard to step this being straightforward :( > You really don’t have PDFs of your own papers? Absolutely not. Where would I have _legally_ have got them from? (This was 25 years ago) For my first paper, I have a copy of the paper journal for that month, kept as a souvenir. > Did you leave academia Yes > and delete your data? No!
    - goerz 5y ago
      > This was 25 years ago That makes sense. Sorry if I was a bit incredulous ;-) I've been publishing for about 10 years, so I'm only talking about the current situation. Things might have been quite different before academic publishing was all online, before arXiv, and before having a "personal website" was a thing. If the publishing agreements back in the day already had a clause allowing the author to privately redistribute their paper, I would assume that if you as the author can get the published PDF anywhere (from a former colleague that still has academic access, directly from the publisher, or potentially even from SciHub), you should be free to then forward it to others or put it on your personal website. IANAL, obviously, so don't quote me on whether it violates copyright to get your own papers off SciHub ;-)

by goerz 5y ago

logifail 5y ago

> explicitly allow the authors to put the journal PDF of their article on their personal or institutional websites Q: Where is an author supposed to _obtain_ the final, "official" journal-approved PDFs in order to republish them? Unless I head for sci-hub, I don't have any of mine :(

goerz 5y ago
You usually have institutional access. If not, I suppose you can ask the publisher to email you the pdf. Or you might be able to download it from the the submission website. I don’t understand: you really don’t have PDFs of your own papers? Did you leave academia and delete your data?
- logifail 5y ago
  > You usually [..] I suppose [..] you might The big publishers have worked very hard to step this being straightforward :( > You really don’t have PDFs of your own papers? Absolutely not. Where would I have _legally_ have got them from? (This was 25 years ago) For my first paper, I have a copy of the paper journal for that month, kept as a souvenir. > Did you leave academia Yes > and delete your data? No!
  - goerz 5y ago
    > This was 25 years ago That makes sense. Sorry if I was a bit incredulous ;-) I've been publishing for about 10 years, so I'm only talking about the current situation. Things might have been quite different before academic publishing was all online, before arXiv, and before having a "personal website" was a thing. If the publishing agreements back in the day already had a clause allowing the author to privately redistribute their paper, I would assume that if you as the author can get the published PDF anywhere (from a former colleague that still has academic access, directly from the publisher, or potentially even from SciHub), you should be free to then forward it to others or put it on your personal website. IANAL, obviously, so don't quote me on whether it violates copyright to get your own papers off SciHub ;-)