In his comments on the EMBO Meeting Statements, Stevan Harnad said:
"> Journals should make a distinction between the peer reviewed and the
> freely deposited data; the latter included in text of papers rather
> than citation lists.
Yes, the peer-reviewed sector should be prominently tagged as such, for
search engines, with the explicit name/volume/issue/page-span of the
peer-reviewed journal that it appears in.
(The rest here is again a red herring: OF COURSE the text will contain
this information, for it is an electronic reprint, containing the usual
citation information along with the abstract and the full text."
I think Stevan has misunderstood what this part of the EMBO statement
meant. He is reiterating the point about distinguishing between refereed
and not-yet-refereed papers. The way I read it is this. In printed
journals it has often been the case that the author says "the full
[crystallographic or whatever] data from this research is deposited in the
such-and-such depository", with a citation to indicated how that depository
may be accessed. This occurs because printed journals can't afford to
print voluminous data. In the electronic version the question doesn't
arise, because you can put all the data you want in the main paper itself.
What I think EMBO meant was that, in such cases, the E-Bioscience database
should distinguish between the content that was actually printed in the
refereed journal, and the supporting data that was not printed but
deposited. But all part of the same article.
Fytton Rowland
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