Comment by bayindirh
1 year ago
Copyright Transfer Agreement. The moment you send the paper to Nature, you can only publish the draft you sent in. Unless you pay for publish, editorial costs are paid by selling access to that paper.
If you want to publish in an Open Access manner, you need to pay the costs. Or if your country wants to license it for Open Access, your country pays the costs.
If I understand correctly, for most publishers you are allowed to host a copy on your personal web as well as the university library catalog?
AFAIK, this comes with distribution limitations like to your department and students in the university. There's an exception for arXiv generally for publishing intermediate revisions, but not the final one.
Elsevier has a nice summary at [0]. At the bottom there's "Publicly share the final published article". It's "YES" for Open Access and "NO" for subscription (classical) model. There's a rather detailed "Scholarly Share" which allows sharing with researchers, but not to any researcher, as I aforementioned on top.
[0]: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/copyri...
Never knew this before! Thanks for sharing.
The final draft that was sent is good enough, maybe all that one needs.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. In my case, the edited versions of (my) paper had more experiments, refined images and was more complete.
The paper was not bad to begin with, but the edited/revised version painted a more complete picture which shouldn't be possible without a set of external reviewers.