Re: L.Rev (C) Release

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Richard Schafer <schafer[_at_]mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> Although I can't speak for that particular journal, as a former journal
> editor I can make some guesses:
>
> 1. Journals really want to be the first to publish articles. We
> would refuse out of hand any submission that had ever been
> published elsewhere, including on a website.
>

This is very interesting, since I and virtually everyone else I know put up draft working papers on the Web in order to get comments on our work. In fact, there is an organization (SSRN) which has over 11,000 draft papers on the Web at last count.

Mark Lemley
<mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> Received on Fri Oct 29 1999 - 15:45:20 GMT