You have published an article in a journal, but it is not openly accessible since a paywall is preventing many interested colleagues and the general public from reading it? This situation is frustrating for everyone involved. It restricts the transfer of knowledge, and your research does not receive the visibility and citations it deserves. Shareyourpaper.org makes it easy to change this.
ShareYourPaper promises greater visibility and 30 per cent more citations. The free, browser-based Open Source service from OA.Works, a non-profit operator of several Open Access tools, is designed to simplify legal self-archiving. ShareYourPaper shows researchers how they can make their journal articles, or more precisely, the "author accepted manuscripts" of journal articles, quickly and free of charge available in Open Access on Zenodo.
If you want to make a journal article more visible, you can do so in just a few steps thanks to ShareYourPaper.
When you can use ShareYourPaper:
You have published an article in a journal – and the article is not yet available in Open Access, but is behind a paywall.
What you need:
The DOI of your journal article.
How to proceed:
Using ShareYourPaper is this easy:
- Enter the DOI of your paper on the ShareYourPaper homepage.
- In the background, ShareYourPaper automatically checks whether the paper is already openly accessible somewhere and to what extent self-archiving is possible in accordance with the journal's policy.
- ShareYourPaper explains how you should proceed. You will receive instructions on how to select the correct manuscript for uploading and how to prepare it.
- The document is then uploaded to Zenodo, making it freely available in Open Access.
- If you wish, you can now share your paper with others, for example directly, via social media or on your personal website.
Done! You can now do the same with your other journal articles. In this respect, you can also use ShareYourPaper to create a personal archive.
Would you like to learn more about Open Science tools or receive background information? The Open Economics Guide's catalogue of Open Science tools contains other similar tools that can help you implement Open Access, such as Free your Science, which was described in this blog post. A series of entries explains how you can publish in Open Access yourself and what you need to bear in mind when doing so.
If you know of any other interesting Open Access or Open Science tools, the Open Economics Guide team would love to hear from you!