Obviously, it would be good if our work would be open for access by anyone. Publishing open access, however, is expensive especially for most researchers in developing countries. Would you mind sharing insights on how you promote your work?
Hi, an important topic with more questions than you ask. But for your question first; I think RG is a good option here, to put either preprint versions as open or at least keep a private version that makes it easy to share. The feature for asking for and sharing private copies work very well in my experience. Then a link to RG could be provided in relevant fora, social media etc. Makes it easy to share at least.
A larger question is where to publish. There are also open access journals that don't have publication fees. In my field (information systems) the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries has such a model, especially aiming at providing an avenue for developing country researchers to publish open access for free. Some journals also have discounts or provide access for free based on country of author/reader.
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Thanks, Johan. Yeah, uploading a preprint is one that I don't usually do, which I should probably start doing. I do keep private files so that one is covered.
As for Journals offering free access, I think it differs from one field to another. Most reputable journals I know are by subscription; hence, one needs to pay huge amount of money to publish open access.
In addition to the important above advice regarding preprints there could be another possibility: some publishers provide the authors (or just the corresponding author) of the paper, either through e-mail sent automatically or upon request in some way at their web sites, with a link to the article which enables the non-subscribers to read it and either works for a limited time, e.g. Elsevier, or for unlimited time, e.g. Royal Society, Springer Nature and Wiley.
As far as I recall, Elsevier and Royal Society links take one to the article page on publisher's web site and allow for downloading the article while Springer Nature and, as far as I understand, Wiley ones are read-only links (except for the readers that already have a subscription access, of course).
Let me stress that to the best of my understanding the shareable links from Elsevier, Royal Society, Springer Nature and Wiley have no explicit limitations for the total number of people that can access the article in question through these links.
Thanks, Artur. Yes, I know that. It's called free e-prints by Taylor and Francis. I share that to people I know. But that one is limited to 50 only per author.
The first option is to publish in open access journals that offer free publication. There are even some journals that exempt the publication fees of authors from the poor and under-developed countries after request to the Editor.
Secondly, if the open access journals are not available, you can upload the pdf file of your published work on the platforms like Research gate, share your work on LinkedIn, Orcid, etc to make it more accessible.
The issue is not the publishing, but the peer review. Now peer review is provided as a free service by the researchers. These should organize themselves so that a serious peer review that would be accepted by scientific committees could be performed on any source: preprint, RG, personal web site…
Hello.
In Brazil, most journals (mainly in the field of education) do not charge the researcher to publish their article and make the articles available free of charge to any reader.
Hi Everaldo! Thanks very much for your response. May I know if these journals are in ENglish?
Grigori Perelman proved the Poincaré conjecture and was awarded the Fields Medal and the Clay Millenium Prize for his work. Though, he published it only on arXiv, and by the way refused both rewards.
One can market their research work through social media such as linkedIn etc. Further there are open access journals that may not require a publication fee. These can be considered too.
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