[GOAL] Re: : Harnad Comments on Proposed HEFCE/REF Green Open Access Mandate

[Stevan Harnad]

Confirmation of Arxiv author practice regarding preprints, postprints,
refereeing and revisions. (Common sense already said as much.) Now it would
be good if authors in other fields (as well as repository managers)
exercised some common sense too...

SH

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From: Tedds, Jonathan A. (Dr.) <jat26 at leicester.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:20 AM

Quick point re deposit of preprints in physics: in at least some branches
of astrophysics there is an established culture of researchers only posting
the **accepted** version of a paper to arXiv following peer review (but
still prior to publication). Final corrections, e.g. during the proof
editing process, may lead to an updated version being deposited and of
course conference proceedings etc usually go straight online.

I think people regard this as the right thing to do with respect to the
scientific process and perhaps people may also wish to avoid potential
embarrassment if peer review subsequently catches a mistake. However, I
certainly know of exceptions to this as well, and I think there can
sometimes be an element of taking a risk and rushing something out to lay
claim to a particular research question.

It would be interesting to know how this varies from branch to branch of
physics more broadly so I’ll try and ask around.

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