Professor Charles Oppenheim writes
> It is usual for a journal to only accept a paper if that paper has
> not been published before.
That it is usual I accept - however I cannot really see why a journal would not want to publish a paper that has been seen elsewhere. Does the content of the paper have less importance than its copyright? Are the mass of journals more concerned with the aspect of exclusivity than making good information available to their readers?
> Working papers on bulletin boards and refereed published journal
>articles involving assignment of copyright are incompatible. The
>scientific and publishing communities will have to decide which
>road they are going to go down: bulletin boards and no printed
>journal articles; journal articles and no bulletin boards; or
>printed journals that no longer insist on assignment of copyright.
I like the third option best. There are people who like a thing in hard copy and others who do not have the time to regularly access bulletin boards.
Jackie Mackay
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