How to make your research 100% Open Access for free (and legally) – Green Tea and Velociraptors

"f we self-archive as a research community en masse, several things could be achieved.

1. Global Open Access to the research literature will become a reality for a very low cost;
2. Subscriptions to publishers for our own content will be largely redundant as everything will be OA already;
3. We create the basis for building tools, like Unpaywall, that can leverage the power of massive-scale access;
4. We save $billions every year from university libraries that can be reinvested into students and open scholarly infrastructure;
5. We make the need for quasi-legal entities like SciHub and ResearchGate to become redundant."