I am an SEP author. May I email the PDF version of my own entry to colleagues or put the PDF version on a web server (e.g., link the PDF version into the list of publications on my home page)?
Distributing copies of the PDF version of your entry electronically, whether by emailing it to colleagues or by putting it on your website, is prohibited as it would undermine the incentive for your colleagues to join the Friends of the SEP Society. It would also violate the exclusive license you gave the SEP to distribute your entry over the Internet (see the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s Copyright Notice and the Friends of the SEP Society’s Copyright Notice). As an SEP author, however, you are free to print the PDF version of your own entry and mail the printout to a colleague. (You retain copyright for print publication and distribution.) Since your entry is freely available in HTML on the web (at http://plato.stanford.edu/ and 3 official mirror sites), you are welcome to send the URL of the HTML version of your entry to your colleagues and to create a link to it on your home page.
