Understanding your rights: pre-prints, post-prints and publisher versions | Information Culture, Scientific American Blog Network

"Recently, Elsevier has come under fire for exercising it’s rights under copyright law by asking various platforms to remove copies of articles published in its journals. This has angered authors, who don’t always realize that they signed away many rights when they signed a publication agreement. As authors examine their copyright transfer agreements to figure out what they are allowed to do, two of the big questions that will impact what they can legally do include: What version of your article do you want to post online? Where do you want to post it? Today, I’ll talk about the first question. Publishers often make distinctions between three primary versions of a manuscript: the pre-print, the post-print and the publishers version ..."