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... <div>
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Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:20 AM<br><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p>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 *<b>accepted</b>* version of a paper to <span>arXiv</span> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to know how this varies from branch to branch of physics more broadly so I’ll try and ask around.</p><p>Regards,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jonathan<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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