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We can help you make your paper Open Access, for free, wherever you publish. It’s legal and takes just minutes. Join millions of researchers sharing their papers freely with colleagues and the public.
We’ll gather information about your paper and find the easiest way to share it.
Try an example 10.1016/j.cplett.2012.10.045 or learn more.
Great news, you’re already getting the benefits of sharing your work! Your publisher or co-author have already shared it.
Unlike most, the journal requires that you ask them before you share your paper freely. Asking only takes a moment as we find out who to contact and have drafted an email for you.
Great news, you’re already getting the benefits of sharing your work! Your publisher or co-author have already shared a freely available copy (opens in a new tab).
We have checked and the journal encourages you to freely share your paper so colleagues and the public can freely read and cite it.
This is the only version you’re able to share under copyright. The accepted manuscript is the word file or Latex export you sent the publisher after peer-review and before formatting (publisher proofs).
It’s normal to share accepted manuscripts as the research is the same. It’s fine to save your file as a pdf, make small edits to formatting, fix typos, remove comments, and arrange figures.
We checked and unfortunately the journal won’t let you share your paper freely with everyone.
The good news is the library can still legally make your paper much easier to find and access. We’ll put the publisher PDF in Zenodo and then share it on your behalf whenever it is requested.
We’ll use this to send you a link. By depositing, you’re agreeing to our .
We’ll only use this if something goes wrong.
We’ll only use this to send you a link to your paper when it is in Zenodo. By depositing, you’re agreeing to the .
By depositing, you’re agreeing to the . You must also license your work CC-BY.
It looks like what you uploaded is a publisher’s PDF which your journal prohibits legally sharing.
You’re nearly done. We need the accepted version, not the PDF from the journal site.
You’ve done your part for now. Hopefully, we’ll send you a link soon. First, we’ll check to make sure it’s legal to share.
Check back soon to see your paper live, or we’ll email you with issues.
You can now put the link on your website, CV, any profiles, and ResearchGate.
Check back soon to see your paper live, or we’ll email you with issues.
We’ll email you a link to your paper in Zenodo soon. Next time, before you publish check to see if your journal allows you to have the most impact by making your research available to everyone, for free.
All that’s left to do is wait. Once the journal gives you permission to share, come back and we’ll help you finish the job.
Shareyourpaper.org is the simplest way to legally make your paper freely available on Google Scholar, Web of Science, your personal site and more to get a citation bump.
If the DOI gives you a paywalled paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2012.10.045.
We help you free it: shareyourpaper.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2012.10.045.
Shareyourpaper.org is open source and built by an academia-owned non-profit to make it easy, fast, and safe to freely share your paper. We’re funded by leading libraries and foundations, so we won’t sell your work, your data, or send you endless emails.
Behind the scenes, shareyourpaper.org works by gathering up information about your paper from the journal, checking copyright details, and seeing if it’s already freely available. We then figure out the simplest way you can share it, guide you through it, and double check what you actually upload is okay. Then it gets put in Zenodo, a non-profit multi-subject based repository operated by CERN that preserves your work, and makes it discoverable. Neat, right? At end of it all, you get a freely available version like the one. This means you can use shareyourpaper.org to build your personal archive, hosted alongside research from your discipline and others.
It’s all powered by an open API and our data sources which include Crossref, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall, Europe PMC, and Open Access Button’s Permissions Database.
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