Questions tagged [preprint]
Questions regarding making manuscripts available prior to their publication in a peer-reviewed source.
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submitting pre-prints at Tenure-track faculty application
First time asking here, I hope my question will be clear.
Background:
I am applying for tenure-track faculty positions in psychology (at a not US/Europe but developed ("OECD") country with strong ...
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Can I still publish a paper on peer reviewed journals several years after publishing it on ArXiv?
I have done some discoveries concerning signal processing from about 6 years which I think are quiet important advances but I never have time to finish the works. As example I know that the main ...
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Preprint services for environmental and earth sciences? [closed]
Is there a good, reputable preprint service that is used in the environmental and earth sciences, and considered acceptable by the major publishers? Many journals specifically state that it is okay to ...
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When a journal requires that the work has not been published before except as a "preprint", is an arXiv publication considered a preprint?
In the copyright transfer agreement of a journal there is the following sentence:
"The Author warrants that the Work has not been published before in
any form except as a preprint."
Nowhere do ...
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Can someone else publish a paper based on independently achieving a result that is in a preprint of mine?
I have a paper that is currently in review but that has been available via bioRxiv for a while. While my paper was in review, a paper was published elsewhere which essentially scoops my paper. I am ...
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What is the average waiting time for a paper deposited to an open archive such as HAL?
I recently deposited a research article to the HAL open archive, and I am waiting for a PDF version of this article to be reviewed and made available online through this archive.
It seems as if ...
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How to encourage self-archiving of preprints in science?
As the background, I am a graduate student in high energy physics, mainly theoretical physics. Recently, I have sen that there are a few scholars who don't put the preprint versions of the paper in ...
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Arxiv conflict with submitted papers
I have submitted my paper to Proceedings of the AMS one month ago and we haven't gotten a response yet. Can I upload my paper to arxiv despite of this? Would there be any conflict? About accepted ones,...
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Researchgate and Elsevier sharing policy
We already have a similar question but it does not seem to address the issue I have. Assume I have a manuscript that is accepted for publication. When I look at the sharing policy of Elsevier, I see ...
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Plagiarism from preprint of paper (from the Arxiv)
Recently we have written a research paper and posted a preprint on the Arxiv to obtain some non-official peer review and to increase the quality of our paper. Till now we have not submitted this paper ...
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Is there a pre-publication access for ACM journals?
After a manuscript is accepted in a journal, usually it takes serveral months before it actually gets actually published. Many publishers now provide online access to the published papars, before they ...
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Getting Help From Adviser's Friend
My MSc thesis is about a subject that my adviser isn't completely familiar with. In my work, I found some new result. He said it is better to show the results to one of his friend that has expertise ...
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Why might a paper published in a good journal no longer be available anywhere?
I came across a paper with an interesting title/abstract which was published in a rank-A journal. However, the article is missing from all online listings (Project Euclid, ScienceDirect, etc.) and is ...
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Change title to arXiv paper
I have a preprint in arXiv, which I submitted at the same time I submitted to a journal. This was a couple of months ago. It was rejected by the journal, and after talking to some experts and getting ...
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What is a post-print of an article or research paper, and what is it used for?
Today I ran across the wording "post-print version" of an article (on ResearchGate). I'm aware of terms pre-print, in preparation, under review, published, etc., but I have never seen the term "post-...
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When updating a preprint on arXiv, should I update my affiliation?
I have a preprint on the arXiv, a couple of years old, and will shortly be re-submitting an updated version. The changes are fairly limited — more than just typos, but not so much as to change the ...
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Sending preprints to colleagues
I recently submitted a journal article and it is under review. I have not heard back yet. I am in contact with a potential collaborator, and I think it would be beneficial for her to read I have in ...
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Does a preprint include revisions made in response to peer review?
This is related to but not answered in this question about the difference between various stages of a manuscript in the publication process.
After an author has submitted a manuscript to a journal ...
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Is there an archive like arxiv.org for agricultural papers?
Is there any internet archive like arxiv.org intended for publication of agriculture-related conference papers or similar?
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Should I publish a working paper in several different websites?
I understand that it is a good idea to publish my working papers and preprints so that they are accessible to other researchers. But there are many different ways to do this, e.g:
ResearchGate;
arXiv;...
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Should I change the format of preprint before publishing it as a working paper?
I submit a paper to a journal which allows to publish the preprint as a working paper. After submission, I thought I can just take the version I just submitted and publish it on ResearchGate. But then ...
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Immature papers on arXiv
I am from computer science and we typically submit to conferences and less often to journals. Publishing pre-prints to arXiv becomes more and more popular in my field. From the discussion here on AS I ...
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List unpublished masters thesis in preprints section on CV?
After I've defended my masters thesis, if I haven't published it anywhere, should I list it in the preprints section on my CV?
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Does Google Scholar link to post-print PDFs lodged on academia.edu or ResearchGate?
I'm a big fan of how Google Scholar puts links to full text PDFs of journal articles that are indexed on the internet next to the link the publication page of academic publishers. This means that ...
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Making latex sourcefiles publicly available by default
Question: where can I find (legal/pragmatic) information about having latex source files for scientific articles publicly available on github?
Or, how would you deal with it?
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I ...
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Whether to publish a paper as both a university working paper and on ArXiV?
I've recently written a paper about my bachelors thesis. This paper was rejected by a journal. It seems to be the usual case that my supervisors are listed as co-authors. I would like to publish it on ...
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Can I put my accepted paper on arXiv before it appears on the proceedings
I have a paper accepted to appear in a CS conference proceedings,
Is it possible to put it on an on-line archive,
such as "arXiv" before the conference date?
Could I at least publish the pre-print?
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How to cite earlier work, discovered only at the end, that claims similar results to a recently completed project?
At the end of writing up our manuscript, we discover that there has been another earlier study in a very different context (but using a physical model very similar to ours) that claims a similar ...
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What is arXiv.org for? Should I upload my unpublished, but submitted manuscripts there? [duplicate]
I know arXiv.org for several years (3 to 4 years), and have used it to access extended versions of conference papers, corrected versions of published papers in a peer-reviewed journal and also search ...
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What are pre-print repositories for math and physics alternative to ArXiv?
Are there other widely used academic pre-print repositories other than ArXiv? My interest is especially towards mathematics and physics.
If possible, one characteristic that I'd like to find in other ...
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Should I worry that a graduate student somewhere gave a talk using my abstract?
I was looking for mentions of my work on the internet and I came across a seminar series in which a graduate student had given a talk using an abstract of mine. It is unpublished work which I posted ...
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Does posting papers on Academia.edu count as publishing?
Does posting papers on websites such as Academia.edu or ResearchGate count as "publishing" for the sake of future journal submission? That is, if I have uploaded my paper to Academia.edu, can I later ...
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Where can I publish the draft paper of my masters thesis?
I'm Iranian and now working on a paper related to my masters thesis. Unfortunately, in my country copyright violation is not unusual and some professors publish students' papers in their own name, ...
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In CV, mentioning of a report that summarizes the postdoc research without publications?
During a one year of postdoc of mine in pure mathematics, I didn't publish anything. I definitely did a research report and wrote down the main questions (in the form of conjectures) we were after and ...
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Cite paper under review on a paper that is going to double-blind review? [duplicate]
I wrote a paper to a journal, which is still under review. Now I need to cite it in another paper that is double-blinded. Is this a problem?
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What procedures should I follow if my preprint is stolen and published in a journal?
I am surprised by the fact that a journal published an article that I have had in arXiv for a few months. The date of publication is after the date that I posted on arXiv. The submission date in the ...
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What to do if a co-author is delaying announcement of results?
I am finishing writing a joint paper with a collaborator and we are both extremely excited about the results. However, we cannot agree on when to announce the results.
In my opinion the paper is ...
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Arxiv equivalent for medical research article
I'm looking for a suggestion, for a medical journal counter part to the arxiv. A minimal frill, open access online repository
to time stamp articles with some visibility.
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When is it appropriate to add references to own papers on Wikipedia?
The Wikipedia rules about citing yourself state:
Using material you have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, ... and is not ...
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Is there a pre-print server for building physics papers?
I recently submitted a pre-print (about heating control algorithms for buildings) to arXiv.org, under General Physics, but it was rejected as being off-topic for that server.
I tried to find a pre-...
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Should I put my not-yet-submitted work on my web page?
I am planning on submitting a paper to a journal. Is it acceptable and advisable to upload it to my web page for public consumption, in the mean time?
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How to react to flawed preprints?
Suppose you were to find what you think are serious flaws in a preprint (arXiv or something similar). What should you do? Now, after the obvious first step of contacting the authors and letting them ...
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How should I prepare e-prints (pre-prints and post-prints) of already published papers?
I am about to embark on the publication of pre-prints or post-prints of about a dozen papers that have already been published in peer-reviewed journals. I plan to use the SHERPA/RoMEO database to ...
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Is the arXiv a good way to get feedback on one's work?
I have developed a method to process images I use for my research. It's nothing revolutionary but I think it might be useful to others than me, and why not, be worthy of being published somewhere (at ...
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Will the admission committee actually read a student's paper mentioned in resume?
(This question is set up under the EECS context, but any generic answer is much welcomed)
It is said that publications during one's undergraduate time will be an advantage in his/her PhD application. ...
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How should use of a preprint server be incorporated into the publishing workflow?
I am a biologist and very recently there has been a movement to increase the use of preprints in publishing biological research. This has generated a lot of discussion about preprints and their ...
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Are there any examples for an ArXiv publication nurturing or preventing plagiarism?
First of all, this is about plagiarism in the sense of stealing ideas. Copy-and-paste plagiarism is included but not likely to happen in the cases relevant for this question.
Considering the ...
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Why upload to academic preprint sites like arXiv?
The recent question about the legality of uploading to arXiv made me realize that I don't have any understanding of why one would upload to a preprint site. (I don't work in a field where they seem ...
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Is it legal to upload a paper to arXiv when it is under double blind review for one of the IEEE journals?
Is it legal to upload a paper to arXiv when it is under double blind review for one of the IEEE journals? I am suspicious that it may violate the double blind review requirements and I couldn't find ...
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As a beginning graduate student, can you do without conferences in theoretical CS?
I'm beginning my graduate study in theoretical computer science soon, and I've been admitted to two graduate schools in Northeastern Asia.
One of those makes it a rule to grant compensation for ...
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