I find it kind of funny that an article criticizing the current review practices is not free and openly available.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Richard+Smith+peer+review+fi...
Here's the .pdf: http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/349and449Readings/Smith20...
In my field, it's common (and even encouraged) for authors to post their work to their own website. When authors give up their copyright to the IEEE, they explicitly retain the right to redistribute it on their own personal web sites.. From the text of the CVPR IEEE copyright agreement:
Author Online Use
6. Personal Servers. Authors and/or their employers shall have the right to post the accepted version of IEEE-copyrighted articles on their own
personal servers or the servers of their institutions or employers without permission from IEEE, provided that the posted version includes a
prominently displayed IEEE copyright notice and, when published, a full citation to the original IEEE publication, including a link to the article
abstract in IEEE Xplore. Authors shall not post the final, published versions of their papers.
(the last sentence refers to the "camera-ready" version, which ideally only contains eg. typo fixes relative to the accepted version)Worth a read though, for the author's recollection of his (unsuccessful) attempts to reject a Karl Popper paper he thought was substandard.