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  1. Hepatobiliary and Esophagogastric Unit, Division of Surgery and Perioperative Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Savio George Barreto

  2. School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Savio George Barreto

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

    Subhash Chandra Parija

  2. Department of Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

    Vikram Kate

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Arjun has just published an article in the Lancet Oncology. He is very excited with his achievement. His manuscript draws considerable attention from the medical fraternity with multiple email requests for the portable document format (PDF) of the manuscript. Arjun receives an email from the archiving website ResearchGate to upload a PDF of the manuscript. What should Arjun do?

  1. (a)

    Upload the PDF immediately to ResearchGate.

  2. (b)

    Upload the prepublication PDF proof of the manuscript to ResearchGate.

  3. (c)

    Contact Lancet Oncology to enquire what his rights as an author are before taking any further action.

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    Upload the manuscript not only to ResearchGate but his own personal website, as well.

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Barreto, S.G. (2017). Open Access for Publication – Can It Be Chosen?. In: Parija, S., Kate, V. (eds) Writing and Publishing a Scientific Research Paper. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4720-6_16

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