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Hi all,
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1. In the past, we have had quite some discussion regarding both open-access and open-access journals. However the slant in this blog post is different. I am not concerned here much about open-access journals per say.
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Here, I am concerned about the policies that the prominent commercial journals keep regarding posting preprints on the Internet before these articles are submitted to them. I would like to know about policies kept in this regard by the commercial journals in the fields of physics, mechanics, and engineering (including software engineering, computational science and engineering, etc.).
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2. The place of "Nature" among journals is pre-eminent. People, even those at highest ranked universities, with pride state acceptance of their work at "Nature." It also happens, I guess, to be the oldest continuously published scientific journal (older than its closest competitors, e.g., Science).
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"Nature Physics," these days, does allow putting your pre-prints on arXiv. Since 2010, Nature Physics has a policy that says that:
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"...any submission to <em>Nature Physics</em> or its sister journals may be posted, in that original submitted form, on the preprint server (although we do ask that the final, revised and accepted version is not posted until six months after publication in the journal; the published version, in the <em>Nature Physics</em> layout, may not be posted)." [<a href="http://blogs.nature.com/nautilus/2010/03/nature_physics_calls_for_suppo_1.html" target="_blank">^</a>]
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Also that:
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"You are welcome to post pre-submission versions or the original submitted version of the manuscript on a personal blog, a collaborative wiki or a preprint server at any time (but not subsequent pre-accept versions that evolve due to the editorial process)." [<a href="http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/confidentiality.html" target="_blank">^</a>].
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Reasonable enough! (BTW, no, I am not a socialist. In fact, I consider myself a capitalist, in Ayn Rand's sense of the term.)
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3. Now I know that many other journals of a similar standing---most notably, "Science"---do not have a clear general policy that allows for doing so:
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"Posting of a paper on the Internet may be considered prior publication that could compromise the originality of the <em>Science</em> submission, although we do allow posting on not-for-profit preprint servers in many cases. Please contact the editors for advice about specific cases." [<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/faq/#prioronline_faq" target="_blank">^</a>]
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4. I tried to locate for myself if other journals had any policy statement on this matter. These journals most notably included: "PRL," "Foundations of Physics," "PNAS," etc. I could not succeed doing so. (The information may be there, but it is hard to find. Even on "Science" mag Web site, it's a few links deeper and not at all obvious, whereas at "Nature," it's more or less very easily accessible starting from the home page.)
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<strong>5. So, here is my request:</strong>
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Are you aware of policies in this regard maintained by the journals which you help edit or to which you often submit your articles---esp. the journals from the mechanics and engineering fields? What are these policies like? Care to share (about those policies)? BTW, here, also the journals on computational mechanics and those dealing with software in engineering, are to be included.
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Does posting a preprint of a paper at iMechanica disqualify submitting it to the journals that iMechanicians often use? How about posting it at arXiv?
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What if I discuss the basic germ of an idea itself here at iMechanica, even though it's not written in the format of a paper? How strict or lenient are the views regarding such pre-submission publication that the journals in Mechanics field take? How do you know---in the sense, to what extent could I be reassured?
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<p>And, finally, how does the iMechanica Creative Commons License work out for this situation? I guess that at iMechanica it's the CC BY-NC-SA license [<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" target="_blank">^</a>] that we follow/require, and not the CC BY-NC-ND one [<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">^</a>]. What if I wish to publish at iMechanica, but only with the latter (more restrictive) license? (However, please note, it's not just the policy of iMechanica that is important to me; I actually am more concerned with the preceding questions.) </p>
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Thanks in advance for any information and clarifications.
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--Ajit
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[E&OE]
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</div></div></div>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:21:52 +0000Ajit R. Jadhav10895 at https://imechanica.orghttps://imechanica.org/node/10895#commentshttps://imechanica.org/crss/node/10895Food for Thought: A Few Recent arXiv Papers
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Since my research touches on the basics of QM, I have developed this habit of visiting arXiv.org every now and then. Last week or so, at arXiv.org, I found a couple of interesting articles on physics in general. I would like to share these with you.
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One of these is: Dragoljub A. Cucic, “Types of paradox in physics,” arXiv:0912.1864v1 [<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1864" target="_blank">^</a>]. It’s a very comprehensive kind of article. Impressed, I did an author search on Cucic, and found a few more papers on this and related topics by him [<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+Cucic_D/0/1/0/all/0/1" target="_blank">^</a>].</p>
<p>The other article I have in mind is: Franco Bagnoli, “From Newton to cellular automata,” arXiv:0912.2056v1 [<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2056" target="_blank">^</a>]. Once again, the scope of this article is just wonderfully wide, even though the writing tends to be a bit too terse at places. But Bagnoli compensates for this by including a neat “concept map.”</p>
<p>Both the papers are easily accessible even to undergraduates. Both provide enormous food for thought.</p>
<p>Indeed, I already find myself wondering if I should write an article or two addressing one or two of the many paradoxes that Cucic lists. [I am still getting my thoughts together.]</p>
<p>And, I cannot thank Bagnoli enough for providing a kind of “white paper” material that was so badly needed in explaining to other researchers (not just to laymen) just what kind of research ideas and methods I seem to be pursuing and how these differ from those in the typical PhD researches, esp. those from the engineering sciences. It helps explain why there is this general (and pretty vague) impression to the effect that there is not enough “maths” or “rigour” in my research or in my papers… Bagnoli helps point out the why of it…</p>
<p>I might even write an informal article showing what kind of maths it will look like if an artificial attempt is made to mathematicize these ideas at any cost, using only the classical or traditional way of putting maths… [I would write such an article anyway but especially so if some renowned researcher/mathematician otherwise has problems accepting my research and so asks me to do so (as I had indicated in my post at my personal blog [<a href="http://ajitjadhav.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/somewhat-scientific-somewhat-latest/" target="_blank">^</a>].)]</p>
<p>Anyway, do go over the abovementioned articles, and if you wish to discuss, feel free to leave a comment or two.
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--Ajit
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</div></div></div>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:43:59 +0000Ajit R. Jadhav7240 at https://imechanica.orghttps://imechanica.org/node/7240#commentshttps://imechanica.org/crss/node/7240Error | iMechanica