Stevan, et al,
No amount of pontificating or dogmatic definition tweaking is going to put
this genie back in the bottle. Any document made publicly available is
'published' by any reasonable definition of the word. To insist that it is
not really published until it has been through a refereeing stage and
appeared in an acknowledged journal is rearranging the deckchairs after
the Titanic has sunk. Many respectable research papers are appearing (ie,
being published), being read and cited (and the citations are being
tracked by search services) before any peer review or even if no peer
review is planned. IRs are part of a new publishing system whether their
original proponents want them to be or not.
How many IRs contain only the type of material specified by Stevan? We are
in the planning stage for our IR and it will be limited to research
outputs but it will certainly not be limited to only refereed material
which has been (or is to be) published in a recognised journal.
Regards,
John Smith,
University of Kent.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Wolfgang Greller wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me whether articles published in an institutional e-print
> > repository count as publication in UK RAE terms?
>
> Absolutely not! "Publication" in the UK RAE and in every other sensible
> venue, means (in the case of research articles) publication in a reputable
> peer-reviewed journal, not vanity self-publication.
>
> Nor is OA self-archiving self-publication. It is access-provision --
> providing supplementary access to an already-published article, in
> order to maximise its usage and impact, not in order to generate a
> spurious entry under "Publications" in one's CV. The place in one's
> CV for unpublished papers is, as always, "Unpublished Papers."
>
> http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/8705/01/resolution.htm#1.4
>
> Stevan Harnad
> American Scientist Open Access Forum
> http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
>
> Chaire de recherche du Canada Professor of Cognitive Science
> Ctr. de neuroscience de la cognition Dpt. Electronics & Computer Science
> Université du Québec à Montréal University of Southampton
> Montréal, Québec Highfield, Southampton
> Canada H3C 3P8 SO17 1BJ United Kingdom
> http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/
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