You know that scholarly friend you have who’s way into for-profit companies circulating their work… Wait, there’s no such person? So how come sites like Academia.edu and ResearchGate are still a thing?

Granted, I’m way late on the delete-academia train. There have been brilliant posts like this, this, and this floating around for years now and, at least in my field, I rarely see people use those commercial gatekeeper repos.

So the time finally came to get off my ass, remove my papers from Academia, and place them in an open archive. At this rate, in 10 years maybe I’ll get an arXiv.org account!

Now, where should you upload your work? HAL (CNRS France) and Zenodo (CERN Swiss) are great options, and as it happens, some of my papers were already on both sites. I went with HAL simply due to the snappier integration with ORCID, the international research infrastructure everyone should probably be a part of.

There we go, my papers are now on HAL,1 and at my ORCID profile page. I feel like a real grown-up.

Oh, and just to bury the lede. This summer I did manage to build a working prototype and publish my work, most notably at the brilliant CSMC+MuMe Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity. I’d been meaning to blog about the project on here, but it was a very busy summer, followed by an even crazier semester. So it goes. The paper is here, and I also submitted a summary as an ISMIR LBD. You can get an idea of the work from my super-exciting slideshow presentation:

I care a lot about this project and I do mean to keep developing and properly documenting it. But right now my focus is on completing the semester and staying sane.

  1. (edit Dec ‘20) Actually, it ended up taking a couple weeks for my added papers to be approved by HAL. So if you’re looking for a fast response, Zenodo might suit you better. ↩