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Tightw
ad Rule #5
Stash your OA pre/postprints
in a non-pro
fi
t, non-tech-startup,
ideally library-run or library-funded
repository.
Not “your own website,” please.
Not ResearchGate or academia.edu
or even SSRN.
(Stash…) Y’all who have open-access mandates from funders!Using a proper repository almost always ful
fi
lls the
mandate, and it won’t cost a penny out of your grant! Tightwads rejoice
!
Now, there are complexities to this, and after
fi
fteen years of doing these talks I’m absolutely bored senseless with
explaining them, so I’m going to refer you to your librarians if you need more information. Hey, information is what
librarians do
.
(Not…) Yeah, yeah, “your own website,” when you retire that’s gone, and it won’t get indexed in Google Scholar
anyway
.
And just MISS ME with these startups, and sites like SSRN that are owned by the Big Deal price-gougers! Just don’t,
y’all! Or if you must, both/and it: put a copy wherever you’re going to put it AND put a copy in the local repository, so
when the startup folds — and they do fold — you’re covered.