#EarthArXiv #OA uploading my unpublished work online
A week ago I came across a new ArXiv (repository) for Earth Sciences, called EarthArXiv. The original ArXiv has been very succesful in storing pre-prints versions for the Physics community, but so far never was extended to the Earth Science community until last week. As I support Open Access, this new ArXiv might be interesting to support. At the moment, I am uploading all my work to ResearchGate, but since a couple of weeks, publishers have been pushing ResearchGate to remove uploaded work because these were violating the copyrights. I always tried to follow the rules on ResearchGate, so I never uploaded the Version of Record (VoR) if I didn't pay for the Open Access and I sticked to the Accepted Manuscript (AM), which is for example accepted for work published in Elsevier journals. Background information on self archiving policy. ResearchGate used to explain that their website fits within the term of a personal website, however ResearchGate made my contributions private withou