Repositories for IT White Papers?

itsAsony asks: "What are the free and paid repositories / portals where I can present my technical white papers (IT papers) that appeals and reaches a wide network of IT personnels such as engineers, technical management, IT sales, in the area of eBusiness & eBilling. I know of one such portal: ZDNet. Basically I am looking for an online portal and print & media source thru which I can present my case to the peer group, not a B-2-C, but peer-2-peer. Thanks for your help."

slashdot 2.0

[Tom7]

Holy shit, portals, P2P, B2C, IT whitepapers...? Are you sure you're at the right site??

Re:slashdot 2.0

[The Clockwork Troll]

What are the free and paid repositories / portals where I can present my technical white papers

Did anyone else think this was a polite way of asking where the public bathrooms were?

Well, there's ...

[FattMattP]

Angelfire, geocities, tripod.

Seriously, that's what the web is really good at: Giving you the ability to publish your own stuff.

Re:Well, there's ...

[buysse]

Yeah. As long as nobody wants to look at it. If they do, "Bandwidth limits for this page have been exceeded. Try again later."

No thanks.

IT White Papers

[benj_e]

There's always itpapers.com [itpapers.com].

Re:IT White Papers

[KingJoshi]

That site is run by ZDNet, the same one he mentions in his post. I'm guessing no one else knows of any others..

Re:IT White Papers

[4of12]

SANs has security-related white papers over here [sans.org].

However, I think

1. it is pretty much just security related and
2. you have to take their course to contribute your paper (doing one is part of the course requirements, IIRC).

Is it research?

[prostoalex]

If it has anything to do with the research or numbers outside of your own company (like you surveyed someone in the industry or you consolidated the questionnaires from your clients), I will take it (link to it with article piece).

I run IT Facts [itfacts.biz] site, which collects facts on IT, mostly research, surveys, numbers and graphs.

Send an e-mail to webmaster at that domain name. The site is also syndicated to some other outfits, so you'll get exposure on other resources, too.

Re:Is it research?

[NateTech]

Got an RSS feed? Interesting site, but the joys of information overload mean that I usually peruse the interesting stuff via RSS feeds these days. ;-)

White Papers...

[skwirlmaster]

When doing IT research I use the ACM Digital Library first, my school has a subsciption. However depending on what specifically your looking for there are probably better DBs available. I've found that it really matters, for example I'm writing on KMSs, I find most hits under Business/Law Databases. See what Databases a local university has access to, and try to take advantage. Take a zip or something so you can take copies along with you.

First, learn to spell. Next, why do you want this?

[RhetoricalQuestion]

People pay me to write whitepapers. If you want to be paid for this (or even get reputable free online publishing), you must first learn that "thru" is not a word.

You haven't really made it clear why you want to put this in an online repository. Do you want to the world to see your research that you did on your own time? Or have you written something for your company and now you want to do some fast and cheap (and therefore, probably not good) PR and Marketing Communications? Or what?

In any case, most whitepapers (these days) are written by companies promoting their particular approach to a solution (some of these have good tech information, others are basically long bad brochures), by research groups like IDC, or research departments of large companies like IBM. These are typically distributed (or sold) by the companies who produce them -- so if you hit company X's website, you could pull up whitepapers written by company X, or written by IDC for which company X paid $20,000 to acquire distribution rights. Occaisionally, they will work through various partner arrangements to get these posted elsewhere -- like ZDNet, or more specialized areas like BEA's partner website. Usually it's in exchange for something like the ability to co-market in some way.

I'm not really aware of other big general repositories -- companies I've worked for have tried to go for targeted distribution, not some massive online repository. In any case, get some detailed, buzzword-free information on who your audience is, and then ask them a) if they read whitepapers (sales people usually don't), b) if they find them useful, and c) where they get them from. That will tell you where need to put your information.

If you really want to get this information out to a larger audience, you may be better off re-organizing the information as an article instead of a whitepaper. Find a magazine (online or otherwise) that targets your audience, ask them about their writer's guidelines (tech magazines often have these online) and check that they take unsolicited articles. You could then self-publish the whitepaper online, and have the (shorter) article point there.

Re:First, learn to spell. Next, why do you want th

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, since you want to posture yourself this way, you should expect replies like this one. Hopefully, instead of saying "FLAMEBAIT!! OFFTOPIC!! MUST MOD DOWN!" right away, you will ponder the application of this message to your writing.

Occaisionally, they will work
I do not believe "occaisionally" is in the dictionary. Your acid-dipped cursor is rendered impotent by this spelling error. Granted, it could simply be the result of typing too fast.

Or what?
Can you diagram that sentence?

Or have you writte

Re:First, learn to spell. Next, why do you want th

[DA-MAN]

Wish I had my mod points, I love it when people talk smack and get smacked for the same issues.

Re:First, learn to spell. Next, why do you want th

[BlankTim]

I have mod points, but I make it a rule not to waste them on AC posts.

Which is really a shame because discussion that was actually more valuable that the main topic itself was.

Of course, having posted this, I'm no longer able to mod it anyhow.

Re:First, learn to spell. Next, why do you want th

[BlankTim]

Which is really a shame because discussion that was actually more valuable that the main topic itself was.

Ahhhhhhhh! Brain fart!

Which is really a shame because THAT discussion was actually more valuable THAN the main topic itself.

In a journal

[satyap]

Why not publish it in one of the journals?

CiteSeer

[JustinXB]

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ [psu.edu]

Allows you to search all kinds of papers, including technical paper.s

BNET is a pretty good resource

[arunnagarajan]

bnet.com [bnet.com] is a pretty good repository from what I have seen. I have never tried to submit anything there, but it seems to be a decent site for business and IT related white paper.

Submit it to ITPapers

[jpnm]

If you want your paper on itpapers.com, and the rest of the ZDNet sites, just submit it, and if it is good, it will be added. An advantage of this, is that you will definitely get indexed by the major search engines.