Publishing a Research Paper on the Web

There are several free hosting sites that allow you to use one of their domain names for free. I prefer to present the information formatted as linked HTML pages (you need to make the conversion) with an option to download and print a linked PDF version. The HTML version makes it easy for online readers while the PDF file provides a well structured format for consistent printing.

Buying a domain name and using it on a free hosting site is an option with minimal cost.

I would suggest scribd

http://www.scribd.com/

It's free and easy to use.

If you would like to publish your papers as a body, rather than individually, I recommend starting a weblog on one of the free blog sites (Wordpress comes to mind, and their software is available on many Web servers for the day when you decide to transfer your work to your own domain) and converting your papers to blog posts (VERY easy). The search engines index blog posts individually, so you won't sacrifice retrievability, and the blog remains your intellectual property.

I use my blog (using Wordpress software, but on my own domain) to recycle my old technical writings. http://www.archivale.com/weblog/

I have started an experiment making some of my work available on line, using Microsoft's Skydrive, and adrive.com. Neither is what I consider ideal, and I am still looking for such. With Skydrive, anyone who is a part of my "network" (tied to Hotmail, I believe) can access my "public" documents at any time. I have used this especially for transferring large data files to a collaborator (too big for e-mail attachments). Adrive requires that I send someone a link to a particular document- it apparently does not provide for casual browsing (although they have a paid version that may do so). My goal is not only sharing some of the work I have done in the past, but also hopefully developing collaborative relationships with others with similar interests. I haven't been doing this long enough (or with as much attention as it deserves) to have any real feel for the efficacy of this approach...

These are interesting, I have what you would call white papers. Basically, troubleshooting tips for a variety of processes, which I have let my customers use or have access to.

There are some sites willing to publish them for a fee. basically to advertise your company, which I am weary about just because I have been doing this as a benefit to my existing customers. As an extra.

Some of these responses are very good. Nice post shyren, and I appreciate the valued responses.

p911

Phoenix-

This sounds a lot like what I am trying to set up- but I am not all that interested in setting up my own web site and dedicating the time to manage it properly, or paying someone else to "publish" something that I generally hand out as good-will contributions. Which is why I am looking at the alternatives I mentioned in my previous post...

It would be nice if CR4 had some sort of repository for these "white papers"- I can see having "standard" responses to questions like battery maintenance or lightning protection that one could refer an inquiry to, or one could refer customers to the CR4 "repository" (with the idea that anything in the CR4 repository has been properly vetted by the appropriate experts...)

When I read your post, thats what occurred to me.

One discuss this more, and can bring up to the administrators, And it would be off topic on this thread.

I personally would like a category with just this type of things, just due a personally how I see it. because blog it seems to take something away or maybe not, but it would be handled very similar and the types of topics would very. I myself have a few that consists of process equipment such as Ultra-filtration units, high volume cookers (cheese), Process Steam, Heat Exchangers, material handling......

just a thought, with the problems that occur with on topic/off topics (though some off topic could be a tangent to the op, but just as important) or the joking that goes on here, let the originator of the thread administer it. Nothing like passion that protects integrity from the op to its baby. With CR4 admin as sideline judges for technical help/support in keeping it 100% professional.

Almost like a wiki-only with more tangible practical info.

I had mention a repository in a thread that would collect valuable links such as engineering and software, but like myself its easier to say that to do.

This would solve research and white papers issues for the op. I myself never really pushed this issue, because I did not believe there was enough people to help with the input????.

I was also told never give that stuff away, I treat it like I manager, and look at it as seed that will come back to me.

p911

My personal experience with "giving stuff away";

1. For the most part, I have already been paid for the work that resulted in the write-up. While the original customer can claim ownership of what he has paid for, a lot of the research and thought that has gone in to the customer's solution is already freely available. If I chose to consolidate the studies for future reference for myself, this is beyond what the customer has paid for. I am very careful to protect anything that may be considered proprietary by the customer.

2. When I have made such "White Papers" available to others at no charge, as often as not, it results in a new paying customer- because the customer has seen evidence of my work, and now has more confidence in me. Like your "seed that comes back to me".

I do not see the "repository" as being a replacement for the forum, but a supplement. For example, the issue of batteries comes up quite frequently. Rather than searching through several thousand posts in several hundred threads, would it not be better to have a properly-vetted document (which could include any conflicting concepts that have not been resolved in the forums) to serve as a starting reference the next time someone posts the same question that has been posted a few dozen times before?

Thanks for posting the link to the Admin blog- I am a bit challenged when it comes to posting links (I can follow OK, but they never seem to want to post for me). I think this is very much the place for this discussion, because it addresses the OP's question directly. Admin probably has too much on their mind right now to follow up on this.

Have you seen the "White Paper" condensation I did on the Haitian housing blog? This is the sort of thing I have in mind (and something I have done for my personal records on other threads as well- the Haiti one is the only one I have gone "public" on).

Your paragraph 1.) and 2.) follows my experiences.

And supplied it to customers. my original intent was not as gallant or open. It was comprising it in a book on information on food processing for a plant manager or plant/OEM engineer. Even knowing it would make not one rich, because that was the reason why not be a there was not much written on the subject.

After 20 years of accumulation, I found the customer saw the value in me, when I freely gave it to them.

I'll review look at your paper on the housing.

Never done it, but I subscribe to a group which publishes electronics oriented white papers.

newsletters.eetimes.com

They have "how to submit" info at the bottom of the page.

Bill

You can make your own blog on free host like Blogger or WordPress and publish your research papers there.
Or share it in pdf at:
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https://www.scribd.com/
https://www.docdroid.net/
and other similar websites.

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