i will give this a try having watched the fray from an interested sidepost
try not to confuse legal status with general ethical policies and individual journal policies and practices the author(s) owns copyright until granting it to another even up until the actual publication time an author can publish something as original only once(technical or non-technical) ever after it becomes a secondary or derivative or duplicative or"redundant" or self-plagiarism type of publication all of which are alright if agreed to in advance by the authors editors (?publishers) and the readers are so informed the Inglefinger rule has been retired for many years it was replaced by the policies of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (the so-called Vancouver Group) to whose Uniform Requirements the correspondents are referred for details electronic publication is publication of course many journals in different(or even the same) fields have different policies the World Association of Medical Editors(WAME) is another good place for this kind of discussion gdlundberg Antonella Pavese <[email protected]> on 07/10/2000 12:47:00 PM Please respond to September 1998 American Scientist Forum <[email protected]> To: [email protected] cc: (bcc: George Lundberg/Medscape) Subject: Re: Legal ways around copyright for one's own giveaway texts Does anybody know what is the legal status of preprinting a paper as a technical report? It is a frequent practice in academic departments to distribute not-yet-published articles as technical reports and I have never heard of problems when the same papers are submitted to refereed journals. Technical reports can be distributed and archived, and often have the same identical content as the submitted paper. Antonella Pavese -- ============================================================ Antonella Pavese, PhD ph: (215) 456-5887 Moss Rehabilitation Fax: (215) 456-5926 Research Institute Korman Bldg., Suite 203 1200 West Tabor Road mailto:[email protected] Philadelphia, PA 19141 http://www.geocities.com/pavesina/ ============================================================
