Publishers, such as IEEE, typically allow to publish pre-prints on your home page or even arXiv.
But they want to have their copyright information added ("prominently displayed") before you upload a paper to arXiv, namely according to section 8.1.9 of their IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual 2024:
“© 20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission
from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future
media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or
promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or
redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted
component of this work in other works.”
What you need to do for IEEE:
In the LaTeX source, add (for an 2025 IEEE publication):
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand\copyrighttext{%
\footnotesize \textcopyright 2025 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted.
Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future
media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional
purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or
lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.}
\newcommand\copyrightnotice{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[anchor=south,yshift=10pt] at (current page.south)
{\fbox{\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-\fboxsep-\fboxrule\relax}{\copyrighttext}}};
\end{tikzpicture}%
}
and change \maketitle to
\maketitle
\copyrightnotice
As license in the arXiv web forms, use to arXiv org perpetual, non-exclusive license if IEEE owns in fact the copyright.
In addition to the official arXiv documentation, you can find also further documentation with screenshots of the submission process.
Zip the LaTeX sources and upload these to arXiv. Note that arXiv cannot handle filenames containing spaces.
https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/info/open-practices/arxiv-first-time-user
Do not forget to add later publisher's DOI
Once you have the DOI of the official publicatipn, the publisher want you to add this DOI to your arXiv submission metadata: In arXiv, use the Journal Ref field or to be more precise, the Journal version DOI: field for this in the arXiv web UI. Even this minor update might also take the usual 1-2 days at arXiv.
