smartass6

Hopefully only after the 6 or 12 month embargo if it's not open access... Even if you don't put the final form of the paper online, you can still run into copyright issues if you immediately post the paper online after it is accepted.

EDIT: Not sure if CS typically publish a lot in IEEE, but they recently changed their policy regarding posting your work online. You are allowed to post the preprint copy immediately, just not the final published version. http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/paperversionpolicy.html

It depends on the publisher/journal but what I've been told by my adviser, who is also the chief editor of one of the journals in our field, after 6 or 12 months, you can post your final draft of the paper online. This copy cannot be the PDF as it is published in the journal, but it can be whatever draft you submitted to the journal. Of course, I'd imagine this varies for different fields but it is still a good way to provide open access to your research papers if the journals you submit to are not open access.

Yeah.. was expecting a much worse comment based on the downvotes. Sure, pathogens may be a part of human life, but, as we’ve seen this year, maybe that’s because of laissez faire approaches such as OPs?

I wonder what OP thinks about sexual encounters during pandemic. Would be pretty hypocritical to be in opposition.

Fucking right it does

Let’s see, there’s not too many long term impacts, other than increased risk of cancer, infertility, genital ulcers, so nothing too serious. Never mind the additional burden on health care systems.