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It depends on the circumstances and the publisher. In many cases publishers permit authors to host the accepted version of the paper (but not the final version

It depends on the circumstances and the publisher. In many cases publishers permit authors to host the accepted version of the paper (but not the final version that includes revisions based on reviewer feedback) on their personal/institutional website and to email copies of the paper on an individual basis to people who request them. For example, see https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/copyright https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/copyright (under "Author Rights") for what Elsevier permits you to do with your own work. On the other hand, publishers have sometimes filed lawsuits against sites where authors share their papers, e.g. ResearchGate: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06945-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06945-6 Elsevier have also sent takedown notices to universities where academics have made the final version available on their institutional websites: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/19/how-one-publisher-is-stopping-academics-from-sharing-their-research/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/19... https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2013/12/elsevier-takedown-notices/ https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2013/12/elsevier-take... https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/elsevier-takedown-notices-a-qa-with-peter-suber/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/elsevier-tak... https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2014/01/28/setting-the-record-straight-about-elsevier/ https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2014/01/28/setting-...

smarx007 5y ago
You are almost always allowed to self archive the final version, but you have to share the PDF you generated yourself, not the nicely formatted one from the publisher. And some publishers only allow self-archiving outside repositories like researchgate. But most importantly, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar would pick up most links from blogs and Arxiv. Use https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ to check. Also, EU projects in most cases now require open publishing and publishers make exceptions even when OA is forbidden (“self archiving is allowed if mandated by the funding agency”).

smarx007 5y ago

You are almost always allowed to self archive the final version, but you have to share the PDF you generated yourself, not the nicely formatted one from the publisher. And some publishers only allow self-archiving outside repositories like researchgate. But most importantly, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar would pick up most links from blogs and Arxiv. Use https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ to check. Also, EU projects in most cases now require open publishing and publishers make exceptions even when OA is forbidden (“self archiving is allowed if mandated by the funding agency”).