Dear Adham Osama Ahmed This depends very much on the publisher. If you mean your paper published by the publisher ASME you can find the details here: https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/resourcefiles/shop/journals/get_your_work_noticed_flyer.pdf It states and I quote: “Submit the pre-publication version to your institutional repository or a subject-specific repository (with ASME permission)”

So, the final version cannot be uploaded, and I estimate that ‘officially’ you are not allowed to upload a pre-publication here on RG either (it is not a “subject-specific repository”). If your university has their own repository, you can upload the accepted manuscript version there.

Best regards.

PS. You can scroll through the list here https://www.researchgate.net/journal/Journal-of-Solar-Energy-Engineering-0199-6231 and see that indeed the majority (but not all) papers are only here on RG as link and the full-text is not uploaded.

Rob Keller Thank you Sir for the clarification.

Salam Adham,

I think it is better to contact the paper's editorial office; because some journals only allow you to publish a preprint version of your paper, not the final version edited by the journal.

Hello Adham Osama Ahmed

I agree with the other answers that each journal or publisher may have its own policy. Further to what Ammar Atif was saying, I generally find contacting the editorial assistant or editorial office administration often is faster than attempting to contact the editorial board.

Ammar Atif makes sense. Thank you Ammar.

Joseph C Lee Thank you Sir.

See https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Copyright for considerations by RG.

And see also these previous discussions:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can-I-copy-one-of-my-publications-and-save-it-as-a-file-to-send-to-you-What-about-copyright-laws

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_legal_to_add_full_texts_of_published_papers_in_RG

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_is_ResearchGate_dealing_with_copyright_issues_when_posting_our_papers

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is-it-against-copyright-law-to-share-journal-articles-with-other-researchers-you-are-collaborating-with

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_we_share_papers_publicly_after_we_have_given_copyrights_to_respective_journals

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Uploading_full_texts

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Im_not_sure_if_we_are_allowed_to_uploaad_published_papers_are_we_To_be_on_the_safe_sde_How_do_I_remove_published_research_article

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_give_my_articles_to_Research_Gate_without_disturbing_Journal_rights

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can-I-copy-one-of-my-publications-and-save-it-as-a-file-to-send-to-you-What-about-copyright-laws

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_legal_to_add_full_texts_of_published_papers_in_RG

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_is_ResearchGate_dealing_with_copyright_issues_when_posting_our_papers

Wolfgang R. Dick Thank you for sharing these helpful links