Timeline for What are the downsides of using arXiv references instead of conference/journal references for the same paper?
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| Feb 22, 2017 at 18:50 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Feb 13, 2017 at 21:21 | history | suggested | smci | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
clarify it's not a general question, but about how to reference the same paper
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 19:50 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @FábioDias I disagree that "the effort of googling a title is par for the course for researchers". Links in references should be more common in my opinion. Also, indicating arXiv in the reference shows that the paper (or at least a pre-print of it) is open access. Most articles aren't. | |
| S Feb 13, 2017 at 19:26 | history | edited | Fábio Dias | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Feb 13, 2017 at 19:26 | history | suggested | smci | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 19:18 | comment | added | Fábio Dias | @a3nm or just cite the published article and let the user find it at arvix, your site, etc... Honestly, I don't see the point of mixing the two citations "to save reader effort" because the effort of googling a title is negligible (and par for the course for researchers). I fully agree with the guidelines mentioned by the OP, and it is what I usually do. I have cited arxiv, but only where there was no other version of the paper (and it was an important reference), which I had to vet myself, since it was not peer reviewed... | |
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 17:44 | comment | added | a3nm | @FábioDias: regarding the credibility problem, you could always cite an arXiv paper with a note "Presented at [conference]" or "Published at [journal]" | |
| Feb 13, 2017 at 17:01 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @FábioDias you can cite a specific version of an arXiv article. | |
| Feb 13, 2017 at 16:04 | comment | added | Fábio Dias | @a3nm On the other hand you lose the credibility associated with a known conference/journal - not worth it IMHO. "Article finding" is an art that all researchers eventually learn... And you can't really reference arxiv tables/etc directly, because they change more often than published articles (the argument is reversed). | |
| Feb 13, 2017 at 0:43 | comment | added | a3nm | @FábioDias: Even though the reader may be able to find open-access copies of a cited paper, there are valid reasons to directly cite the arXiv paper. At least: (1.) saving reader effort, in particular if you put a clickable hyperlink to the arXiv version; (2.) making it clear that references to figures/theorems/tables/etc. are relative to the arXiv version and not the publisher version (or some other online version), in case they differ; (3.) not give the impression to readers that they are encouraged to pay for the publisher version of the paper. | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 17:23 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @E.P. Instructions for camera ready version of papers at EACL 2017 sent by email to authors. | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 14:30 | comment | added | E.P. | When you say "somewhere", what kind of somewhere is that? | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 9:18 | answer | added | Tom Kelly ケリー・トム | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 5:11 | answer | added | Tom Church | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 0:54 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @FábioDias (Ways to get free and legal access to research papers as a researcher) | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 0:52 | comment | added | Fábio Dias | As a general comment for those advocating that arxiv isn't paywalled, I usually google the name of the paper I'm looking for if I can't access it by other means, leading to arxiv/researchgate/archives-ouvertes/etc... | |
| Feb 12, 2017 at 0:31 | answer | added | Almoturg | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 23:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/830561602344742913 | ||
| Feb 11, 2017 at 21:44 | answer | added | Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 20:00 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 78 | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 19:53 | history | asked | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |