As we all know, the most important part\u00a0of publishing\u00a0research is making sure that no one ever reads or cites it.\u00a0After all, it’d be awful if anyone actually saw the end result of months or even years of your effort. So keep these tips in mind the next time you author a publication.
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What ever you do, don’t upload the PDF to your personal or institution website or an open access repository. I mean, how awful would it be if someone could just Google the title and find the complete document? When someone isn’t sure if an article is relevant to their research, it’s critical that accessing a PDF be as difficult and time consuming as possible. Your goal is to make the menacingly literate\u00a0give up and turn to someone else’s article.<\/p>\n
Backup option: If your co-author accidentally uploads the file to their website, all is not lost. Just make sure that no other co-author uploads it, and no one posts it to a preprint repository. That way, when your colleague changes institutions, leaves academia, or just rearranges their site, the PDF will likely be lost in the shuffle. Phew!<\/p>\n
Could you imagine how horrible it would be if after finding one of your papers, someone could then\u00a0quickly peruse\u00a0other publications you’ve written\u00a0on similar topics?<\/p>\n
This\u00a0nightmare might seem\u00a0laughably unlikely due to\u00a0the hurdles of making a website.\u00a0But\u00a0with modern easy-to-use\u00a0site builders<\/a>,\u00a0it would only take five minutes and no coding to make your research publicly\u00a0available for free.\u00a0You should shiver at the thought of how close your research is to the precipice of visibility. Yikes!<\/p>\n Closed access publishers are allies in the fight to keep research hidden. By restricting\u00a0where and how a publication can be uploaded, they help prevent most people from accessing it. Keeping your article\u00a0locked behind a\u00a0paywall\u00a0keeps it away from clutches of non-academics, academics who work off campus, and even some campuses who don’t fork over the large ransoms demanded by publishers.<\/p>\n In case someone manages to jump through\u00a0all of these hoops,\u00a0don’t worry. Publishers’ websites are often slow, badly designed navigational mazes. Better yet, some publishers\u00a0set up decoy sites that are prioritized on Google. Even if a\u00a0university purchases access from a publisher, the decoy website<\/a>\u00a0will make it look like the publication is inaccessible. Way to\u00a0give 110%!<\/p>\n You need to\u00a0be very vigilant to ensure that your publications stay hidden. With\u00a0the many different ways that\u00a0publications can wind up online and the minimal effort required, your research will only stay hidden if\u00a0you choose to hide it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we all know, the most important part\u00a0of publishing\u00a0research is making sure that no one ever reads or cites it.\u00a0After all, it’d be awful if anyone actually saw the end result of months or even years of your effort. So keep these tips in mind the next time you author a publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,28],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-science","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}3.\u00a0Avoid open access publication venues<\/h2>\n
It takes effort<\/h2>\n