Timeline for Can I submit my old PhD thesis to arxiv with the date set to its original submission date?
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| Apr 24, 2017 at 14:28 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | I would be opposed to such a feature. For published work, the journal reference field is already there for the full publication details, including the date. For most unpublished work, the date it first appeared is not really a precise concept. (Does it mean the first date you showed it to anyone? The date you made the final edits? The date you posted it to a previous website?) Theses are one of the few cases that have a widely agreed upon date but that don't fit the journal reference field very well, and I don't think it's worth introducing a special field primarily for them. | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 9:06 | comment | added | einpoklum | @PeteL.Clark: Because it's not just comment text, it's a structural field, and is often just as important as when you've uploaded your file. | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 9:00 | comment | added | famargar | @PeteL.Clark as per my comment above: I would not like to raise attention to an old piece of work. On the other hand, I do would like to have a chance to store my PhD in a publicly accessible place, the same way as my younger colleagues have done in more recent times. According to the number of upvotes, this feature seems like of popular interest! | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 21:07 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | You can already add the publication information of the preprint in the comments. (Many people go back and add this when the paper is published; many don't.) So I don't see why a new feature is really necessary. | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 20:09 | history | answered | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |