Re: Sub-sidy/cription for ArXiv

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

At 6:21 PM -0500 1/27/10, Stevan Harnad wrote:

>So the only thing that is true in what "Simon says" is that when 
>all papers are available OA as peer-reviewed final drafts (and 
>sometimes also supplemented earlier by the prerefereeing drafts) 
>there is no longer any need for users or authors to consult the 
>journal's proprietary version of record. (They can just cite it, 
>sight unseen.)

Maybe this would be acceptable if all one were doing was 
discussing the basic ideas conveyed in an article and citing the 
VoR as the source, but it would be dangerous to rely on the 
postprint solely and quote from it since the final editing may 
well have caught errors and made other changes in the 
peer-reviewed draft.

Sanford G. Thatcher
Executive Editor for Social Sciences and Humanities
Penn State University Press
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