Dear Panyarak
Although I have no direct experience of this I am aware of it happening and so it is a very real problem: making a paper open access prior to acceptance by a journal can definitely jeopardise its chances of being accepted/published.
However I don't think that you need to delay the submission to your repository. The bibliographic details + doi # (if available) at least can be deposited (if you are not doing this already) and the full text can either be embargoed or uploaded later, on publication. I think that encouraging academics to deposit items sooner rather than later all helps to get their work noticed by researchers.
Best wishes
Simon de Montfalcon
Institutional Repository
University of Southampton
UK
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From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Panyarak Ngamsritragul
Sent: 31 January 2011 05:12
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Subject: Submission to IR vs publish articles to journals
Hi,
We recently started out IR and are trying to convince people to submit their works into the IR. We got a question or rather a complain that once they submitted the fulltext theses or research reports into the IR and goes public, any article or paper generated based on such works(theses or research reports) will be rejected from the journal publishers (or editors).
Has anyone experienced such problem before? Could you please share the experiences?
What we can do at the moment is to delay the submission for a certain period, but problem is that some journals take 1-2 years to publish an article...
Thanks in advance.
Panyarak Ngamsritragul
Prince of Songkla University
Thailand
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