Re: Errors in author's versions

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

For some reason David's posting, which Rebecca has commented on, 
did not reach me. He and I think in different ways. I really do 
have to take some things on trust in my life. My only point is 
that I have not looked for serious scientific errors and not 
found them. I have not looked. I hope someone will. I hope a 
publisher will analyse copy-editors questions and author answers. 
I also think that Rebecca's suggestion is a good one.

Anthony


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Kennison" <rkennison@plos.org>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:00 AM
Subject: RE: Errors in author's versions

> While I wouldn't want to come down on one side or the other in 
> this debate, nor would I want to do the work myself to uncover 
> whether there are indeed serious scientific errors that have 
> been corrected between an author-supplied version of a paper 
> and the final copyedited and proofed version, a good sample set 
> of data that has both versions can be found in two of our 
> journals, which offer what we call Early Online Releases (or 
> EORs), PLoS Genetics and PLoS Computational Biology. We 
> continue to make the original author-submitted manuscript 
> available even after the final version of the paper has been 
> published (see 
> http://genetics.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1 
> 371/journal.pgen.0020116 for an example), so doing some kind of 
> comparison between those files is certainly doable, if someone 
> wanted to do the work.
>
> Best regards,
> Rebecca Kennison
> Director of Production
> Public Library of Science
>
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of David Goodman
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:51 PM
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu; liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: RE: Errors in author's versions
>
> Dear Anthony,
>
> I have no intention of influencing the US government-- it is
> perhaps the furthest thing from my thoughts. Do not confuse me
> with those who do.
>
> You have told me about editors' salaries, and indicated evidence,
> and so have others, and I then agree my previous undersanding was
> incorrect.
>
> But the argument against author copies presented here by some
> biomedical societies was about serious scientific errors, and I
> will believe such an error when the citations to the print and OA
> versions are given, or similar physical data produced.
>
> It is not only you and I both who have failed to find them. There
> are several hundred people reading this list who are in a
> position to know of any. There were some postings that there
> might conceivably be such errors in the future. I take that as an
> admission that they too have not found any now.
>
> Anthony, I would not accept anyone's word in place of possible
> data, whether or not it confirms my prejudices. I should never
> have deserved the doctorate you keep mentioning if I worked
> otherwise.
>
> David Goodman
> dgoodman@princeton.edu