I understand that it is a good idea to publish my working papers and preprints so that they are accessible to other researchers. But there are many different ways to do this, e.g:
- ResearchGate;
- arXiv;
- CiteULike;
- Academia.edu;
- The university website;
- My personal website;
etc...
Is it a good idea to put my working papers in all these websites?
An apparent advantage is that it increases the visibility of the paper (however, with Google Scholar, I am not sure it matter).
An apparent disadvantage is that, if I update the working paper, I have to remember to update it in all these places. Otherwise I risk having old versions of my working papers flying around the web.