I am in the process of submitting a paper on arxiv and I would like to know if there is anyone who knows if the part in gray in the following picture gets automatically added on the paper or I should take care of it.
Thanks in advance for your help.
3 Answers
The gray part is added by the publisher (IEEE) on the early access version of the manuscript, once accepted.
Note that you may not be allowed to submit such a version to arXiv, see this question and the accepted answer.
answered Mar 23, 2020 at 10:39
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Hi, thanks for the answer. However, I am talking about (I should have mentioned it) of a IEEE conference paper. The paper has been accepted but it will appear in the proceedings (maybe) in 3 months or so. Therefore I would like to upload it on arxiv. Everyone in my community (robotics) does it, this is why I was thinking that it is allowed (I know that it is not the best reason ;) ) Commented Mar 23, 2020 at 13:10
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@desmond13 You should check the so-called "author rights" for those proceedings. In general, IEEE is quite strict on what can be put on preprint repositories. Commented Mar 23, 2020 at 13:16
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This is what I found: journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/… Since mine is an accepted article, it seems that I can put it on arxiv Commented Mar 23, 2020 at 13:31
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arXiv does not add anything like this automatically.
answered Mar 23, 2020 at 10:37
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4It adds its own watermark in the left border of the first page, though. The watermark is a link to the Arxiv page of the preprint, and does not mention external journals. Commented Mar 23, 2020 at 12:48
No, Arxiv only adds its own watermark on the left side of the first page.
Do note, though, that among the article's metadata on Arxiv there is a "journal ref" field where you can specify in which journal your preprint was published. Once you log into your account, next to your list of Arxiv articles you will see a "journal ref" icon.
This is the recommended way to add this information, since it gets added to the database and is not just inside the pdf in a difficult-to-parse text format.
answered Mar 23, 2020 at 13:15
