Re:“You pay to read research you fund. That’s ludicrous”
by praseodym on Monday April 18, 2016 @11:21AM
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Usually you can publish a draft version of your paper, but not the version that is edited by the journal. They should be mostly the same, though.
Re:“You pay to read research you fund. That’s ludicrous”
by jeffwass on Monday April 18, 2016 @11:49AM
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Often people post to the Arxiv as well, clearly not formatted the same way as the journal publication. But in many cases the exact same text.
I'm not sure if some journals like Nature prevent or discourage you from doing this.
Re:“You pay to read research you fund. That’s ludicrous”
by mandor on Monday April 18, 2016 @01:57PM
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Nature (and the vast majory of journals) is OK with posting on arxiv the pre-review manuscript, but not the post-review (ie, with the changes made after the comments by the reviewers) and not the version they edited (and added their page layout).
Some journals allow us to post the post-review paper (at any rate, the changes are usually mostly cosmetic).
Journals like Nature and Science are usually considered the top (at least for physics, which I studied). Getting even one article published in these is a big deal. As a grad student you've got it made for when you apply for a post doc.
The irony is that most (probably all) of the researchers would gladly want their articles shared widely, and I couldn't see any researcher in favour of restricting access to an interested party wanting to see their work.
That said, if you're not in academia, you may have good luck emailing professors directly asking if they can share a copy of their paper. I've been out of school for several years now, but professors sometimes even included such PDFs on their webpages for general public consumption. Not sure if that violates any terms of the publishing journal though.