Re: Central versus institutional self-archivings

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:11:09 +0000 (GMT)

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Prof. Tom Wilson wrote:

> It's also evident that other archives, for example, EconWPA, accept papers that
> have not been published in journals - one of those submitted in the area of
> International Trade this year was a draft book chapter - and, perhaps, have not
> even been offered to a journal - as with the conference proceedings referred
> to. So, it is not journals that accept papers into archives, but the archives
> and these clearly vary in their acceptance policy - EconWPA appears to have the
> same policy as CoRR, in that the form used for submission gives no information
> about any editorial process being involved.

    "Distinguish self-publishing (vanity press)
    from self-archiving (of published, refereed research)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1.4

    "EPRINTS = PREPRINTS (unrefereed) + POSTPRINTS (refereed)"
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0661.html
    
    "What is an Eprint?"
    http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#What-is-Eprint
   
    "Garfield: 'Acknowledged Self-Archiving is Not Prior Publication'"
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2239.html

Stevan Harnad

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