I don’t understand why any author pays the exorbitant Nature open access fees ($11,690!) when they can legally generate a view only PDF of their piece to share.

Authors, please post your ReadCube links!

To do so, go here:

springernature.com/gp/research

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@davidho Might the answer be grant or institutional requirements to publish in an journal? Using the feature you mention could be viewed as functionally equivalent but it might not technically satisfy such a requirement.

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