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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



On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:32 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:18:16 -0700
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> From "tomorrow's" New York Times:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/science/asap-bio-biologists-published-to-the-internet.html
>
> A small insurgency, but from some very visible people.
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> ASU

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