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Am I allowed to post PDFs of my publications on my Mendeley Web profile page?

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Am I allowed to post PDFs of my publications on my Mendeley Web profile page?

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Yes, in the vast majority of cases this is not a problem at all. To quote the EPrints Self-Archiving FAQ: Texts that an author has himself written are his own intellectual property. The author holds the copyright and is free to give away or sell copies, on-paper or on-line (e.g., by self-archiving), as he sees fit. For example, the pre-refereeing preprint can always be legally self-archived. Self-archiving of one’s own, non-plagiarized texts is in general legal in all cases but two. The first of these two exceptions is irrelevant to the kind of self-archiving BOAI is concerned with, and for the second there is a legal alternative. Exception 1: Where exclusive copyright in a “work for hire” has been transfered by the author to a publisher — i.e., the author has been paid (or will be paid royalties) in exchange for the text — the author may not self-archive it. (…) Exception 1 is irrelevant [for this case, which is concerned] only with peer-reviewed research, for which the author is

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