Re: L.Rev (C) Release

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999, Mark Lemley <mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.

Circulating preprints was one of the first uses of the Web!

Harold Federow
<haroldf[_at_]bsquare.com> Received on Fri Oct 29 1999 - 22:29:20 GMT