Publish in Journals with Liberal Self-Archiving Policies

Most journals now allow authors to self-archive e-prints (digital preprints or postprints) in disciplinary archives (i.e., global digital archives for for one or more subjects), in institutional repositories (i.e., digital repositories for one or more institutions), and on author home pages. However, each publisher has its own policy. For example, some may allow self-archiving of preprints, but not postprints. Others may allow self-archiving in institutional repositories, but not disciplinary archives. To ensure that your article gets the widest possible exposure, you'll want the journal that you publish it in to have the most liberal self-archiving policy possible.

Project Sherpa maintains a list of publishers' copyright and self-archiving policies.

This list tells you whether preprints and postprints can be archived, what special conditions apply, what the publisher's copyright policy is, and other information. It also uses indicates the color code assigned by Project Romeo. The color indicates how liberal the publishers' policies are.