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4Figshare looks interesting, but I think it would have some limitations as a preprint server. One is the mandatory CC BY licensing (which is incompatible with many journals), and the other is that I don't think there's a culture of scanning through Figshare announcements for the latest papers. If you post a mathematics paper on the arXiv, many of the leading experts will notice it the next day. Currently, Figshare seems to fulfill the hosting aspect of being a preprint server but not the publicity or dissemination aspect.– Anonymous MathematicianCommented Feb 18, 2013 at 16:31
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I agree that it will still need some time to grow to have the structure that ArXiv has currently. With more OA players on board and community input, hopefully that will happen soon. I wasn't aware of the CC-BY licensing issue with journals though - am now curious. Do you have examples of journals with which the CC-BY licensing could create an issue for submission?– Theresa LiaoCommented Feb 18, 2013 at 18:59
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1Probably you could get away with it by simply not telling the journal what you did, but it strongly conflicts with the publishing agreements of most non-OA journals. For example, if you don't choose a gold OA option, Springer insists on a transfer of exclusive rights, which is impossible if you have already released the paper under a CC-BY license. (There are exceptions for some things like the arXiv, but I'd be very surprised if they allowed a CC-BY license, since letting people do that for free would undermine their gold OA options.)– Anonymous MathematicianCommented Feb 19, 2013 at 3:23
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1I don't think there's anything special about Springer here (I just mention them since I was looking at springer.com/open+access/…). Some non-OA publishers, particularly non-profit ones, may be fine with a CC-BY paper, but I think most would not. In any case, if anyone is considering doing this, I would urge them to check out their favorite journals and make sure they would be OK with it.– Anonymous MathematicianCommented Feb 19, 2013 at 3:26
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2Thanks for pointing this out. Just found another post in stack exchange regarding this: What are risks or disadvantages in uploading to figshare or related services?. I personally like OA & CC-BY but also recognize the reality of the situation, so yes it is better to check first.– Theresa LiaoCommented Feb 19, 2013 at 7:20
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