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I agree with Nick's statement here; however, having just gone through this with a "NSC" publication I can tell you that when you factor in space constraints of Nature and Science and the incredibly high standard of the journal and reviewers for these papers, there is little choice but to comply with their requests to add additional information and/or move some things to the supplementary materials. Apart from these journals increasing space limitations, I don't see an easy solution to this problem. That said, I will echo what others have stated that if there is no way to avoid the dreaded Supplementary Materials, then they should be held to just as high a standard as the main paper. Best, Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Hopcroft Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:06 PM To: CCP4 Bulletin Board Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: Use of 'online supplementary material' *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** I have read several papers where, in the Results or Discussion sections, the reader is referred to 'Figure N in the Supplementary Material', and find this quite irritating if I'm reading a hard copy of the paper. Supplementary material should be just that - supplementary. It should not be part of the biological argument of the paper. Surely Supplementary Material should only possibly be referred to in the Methods, and only then to point out that information that traditionally would not be available at all, is available online? Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
