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Apr 13, 2017 at 12:49 history edited CommunityBot
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May 21, 2013 at 16:02 vote accept marcin
May 21, 2013 at 16:02 comment added marcin @PiotrMigdal: Thanks for your answer. I've put the papers on Github for now.
May 20, 2013 at 21:15 comment added Faheem Mitha @FedericoPoloni Well, the acid test would be searching for the title of a paper on GitHub without especially searching GitHub, and seeing if it came up. :-)
May 20, 2013 at 21:07 comment added Federico Poloni Google seems to pick up PDF files on github just fine: google.com/search?q=filetype%3Apdf%20site%3Agithub.com
May 20, 2013 at 20:27 comment added Piotr Migdal @FaheemMitha Most likely BitBucket is as good as GitHub for this purpose.
May 20, 2013 at 20:23 comment added Faheem Mitha @PiotrMigdal: No, I've no idea whether the Google indexing would work or not. I don't currently have a good place to put my papers either, but I hadn't thought of using GitHub. Though I'd be more likely to use BitBucket, as I use that already.
May 20, 2013 at 20:18 comment added Piotr Migdal @FaheemMitha If you link it explicitly in README.md - I guess it should (all in all, you can search for GitHub repositories). But I haven't tested it in practice (maybe I should?). Do you have any arguments why it shouldn't take it (e.g. some no-index/no-follow?).
May 20, 2013 at 20:16 comment added Faheem Mitha Will Google pick up and index a paper posted on Github?
May 20, 2013 at 20:13 history edited Piotr Migdal CC BY-SA 3.0
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May 20, 2013 at 20:08 comment added Piotr Migdal @FedericoPoloni Good point, I've removed the Figshare part. On GitHub it is you who set the license. Open source (i.e. source is visible) does not carry any license per se (AFAIK). Posting PDF without source there, AFAIK, does not differ from posting it on your homepage.
May 20, 2013 at 20:05 history edited Piotr Migdal CC BY-SA 3.0
removed figshare part
May 20, 2013 at 20:05 comment added Federico Poloni I don't think this is legally allowed. The Figshare terms of service state that "All publicly stored research outputs are stored under Creative Commons Licenses"; he does not have enough rights left to publish under one. As for Github, I seem to recall that you can only publish open source code there, although I can't find anything specific on the ToS now. A post-published self-archived pdf surely is not open source.
May 20, 2013 at 19:56 history answered Piotr Migdal CC BY-SA 3.0