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Actually, this totally makes sense to me. If you post on papers on your ~home/ page it is fine, but if you give your papers to a third party which operates a f
by ivan_ah 13y ago
Actually, this totally makes sense to me.
If you post on papers on your ~home/ page it is fine, but if you give your papers to a third party which operates a for profit website then it is not the same.
I am generally not a big fan of Elsevier, but in this case I am totally with them on the matter.
- davidgerard 13y agoAlicia Wise, from Elsevier, claims this is only final versions. That they never go after preprints on authors' own hosting. This claim is, of course, false. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=45622313 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=4562... I have asked her for an explanation; I'm sure it will be of interest.
- sitkack 13y agoI am actually not a fan of academia.edu, they seem like the scribd/slideshare of academic research. They are another paywall speedbump in the free exchange if ideas. Whenever I hit their page I immediately look for another source. If they had been more like stackoverflow and less like experts exchange ... but they are not.