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: > > From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:18:16 -0700 > > 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