What's the point of depositing a paper in arXiv with the annotation, "Submitted to Nature. Under press embargo"?
If a publisher won't consider a paper which has already been published or publicized (that is, if it follows the Ingelfinger Rule), will this hand-waving satisfy it? Either way, why should authors indulge publishers who adopt the rule? Why should readers indulge authors who try to follow the rule by putting an embargo on an OA preprint?
There's a good discussion thread on this cluster of questions at at Discover.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/15/2009 09:03:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
