"Rzepa, Henry" wrote:
I note with interest that the latest attempt to introduce a chemistry pre-print service
( http://www.chemweb.com/preprint?url=/CPS, this chemweb by the way having no association with this list of the same name)
now has a collection of 6 pre-prints.
A great deal has been written about the nature of preprints in many fora, and there would be no point in starting a major thread on this topic at this forum. But one or two comments might attract discussion!
a) Have the major learned society and commercial publishers yet indicated whether they will accept articles that have been preprinted? The RSC and ACS policies are currently unclear, to say the least.
Harter, S. P.; Park, T. K. "Impact of Prior Electronic Publication on Manuscript Consideration Policies of Scholarly Journals". Journal of the American Society for Information Science 2000, 51(10), 940-948 (i.e., the current issue) shows that (a) editors have no policies in place (b) most are willing to consider "pre-published" papers but the atttitude varies amongst disciplines (arts and humanities least willing), and with the nature of the "pre-publication" e.g., papers previously reviewed are not favoured for "proper" publication. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)