From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 02:43:11 +0000

So "precarious" means do what?



> On Mar 17, 2016, at 10:38 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:00:25 -0700
>
> Jim,
>
> I think the major issue here is priority and thus -- tangentially -- copyright.
>
> Here is my experience - for what it worth.
>
> Three days ago my own paper was pre-published:
>
> http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700720-12341264
>
> It was submitted on Christmas eve 2014 and appeared at the VC website
> several days ago, March 11, 2016.  So its way up took almost a year
> and 3 months. (And it is not formally published, or rather is not
> assigned yet to a particular issue.)
>
> But along the way, I twice submitted corrections and improvements. And
> they increased paper's value significantly - not the major claim that
> remains the same but supporting arguments.
>
> Well, this is a history of science work. But imagine it is a hard
> science! If you make a mistake in a long series of arguments and
> someone else corrects it, who is the author of the final result?
>
> These are subtle things. Pre-publication on arxiv is precarious - it
> pre-opens a Pandora's box of priority disputes.
>
> Ari Belenkiy
>
> Vancouver BC