Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

2003-11-18 Thread Leslie Carr
On 17 Nov 2003, at 20:42, Stevan Harnad wrote:

 I have to admit that this is the first I've ever heard of any papers
 being removed from Arxiv for copyright reasons.

Me too. There are 11 entries across the whole *physics* archive which
have any comments about copyright: 9 are mentions of copyright, 2 are
indicating problems (#3, #4 below).

3. astro-ph/0301194 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The little galaxy that could: Kinematics of Camelopardalis B
Authors: Ayesha Begum, Jayaram N. Chengalur, Ulrich Hopp
Comments: Accepted for publication in New Astronomy. For copyright
reasons this version is slightly different from the accepted version,
although the differences are minor
Journal-ref: New Astron. 8 (2003) 267-281

4. physics/0202004 [abs, src] :
Title: Electron excitation and 'cascade' ionisation of diatomic
molecules with ultra-short pulses of strong IR lasers
Authors: A.I. Pegarkov
Comments: Removed by arXiv admin as author submitted a version for
which he does not hold copyright
Subj-class: Optics; Chemical Physics
Journal-ref: Chem. Phys. Lett. V. 343, 642-648 (2001)

However, if you look for the word withdrawn, there are 399 records
returned. Almost all of these (for which a reason is given) are either
due to plagiarism or the discovery of errors in the paper. The list of
comments appears below:

-
(NOTE: PAPER IS INCORRECT AND IS WITHDRAWN)
(Paper is being withdrawn: original conclusion is incorrect for the
nonabelian case. For a correct treatment, see M. Asorey, S. Carlip, and
F. Falceto, hep-th/9304081.)
(Section 7 on the Massive Case and some references have been
withdrawn). To the Memory of Laurent Schwartz. Report-no:
CPT-2002/P.4462
(This paper replaces our earlier, withdrawn, paper, hep-th/9712178.)
Minor typos corrected
(Withdrawn due to error. See D. Lowe, L. Susskind and J. Uglum,
hep-th/9402136, for correct treatment.)
(Withdrawn: This paper turns out incomplete and even misleading. I must
apologize to all of the recipients.)
(no figures) This paper is being withdrawn (ssar...@ua1vm.ua.edu)
(withdrawn)
(withdrawn)
*withdrawn*
0, plain tex, This paper is incorrect, and has been withdrawn by the
Author
1 postscript figure, uses revtex.sty This paper has been withdrawn, as
further work has shown that an atom laser as described by the model
herein *does not have a steady state*, so it doesn't matter much what
it would look like
2 uuencoded figures, WITHDRAWN PENDING REVISION
2e, title changed, section 2 withdrawn and one reference added. To
appear in Phys.Lett.B
6 pages; Withdrawn at author's request Mon, 30 Oct 95
; Claims in connection with disordered systems have been withdrawn;
More detailed description of the simulations; Inset added to figure 3
After a 3.5 month refereeing delay, withdrawn and submitted to ApJL,
where it is now in press
An observation from the previous version has been withdrawn and a new
proof added. Submitted for publication in PRA
An uncorrectly justified claim about adding Einstein Rosen bridges
withdrawn
Certain speculations introduced in Part III of the original paper have
been withdrawn. Additional (minor) comments have been made
Criticism of results by Nagao and Slevin withdrawn
Errors corrected, section 4.1 withdrawn and title changed. A more
complete treatment will appear in a forthcoming paper
Hence, the original version of this paper has been withdrawn
Hence, the original version of this paper has been withdrawn
Hence, the original version of this paper has been withdrawn
II, and is hence withdrawn
Manuscript withdrawn by the authors
Manuscript withdrawn; see below
Original version was submitted to MNRAS on 13, Jan, 2003, which was
withdrawn. After heavey revison, its essence was resubmitted to ApJL on
18 Aug. 2003. 2nd revision.
Paper Withdrawn
Paper Withdrawn. Some aspects of the RG calculation have to be
reconsidered. It will be rewritten
Paper contains an error and is withdrawn for now
Paper has been withdrawn
Paper has been withdrawn for major repairs
Paper has been withdrawn; see cond-mat/0301499
Paper is withdrawn and superseded by EFI-94-36 which will appear
shortly with the new hep-th number hep-th/9407111
Paper is withdrawn pending lifting of data embargo
Paper is withdrawn. See quant-ph/9812019
Paper temporarily withdrawn for remodeling
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn
Paper withdrawn after reanalysis of data. Paper no longer available for download
Paper withdrawn because its principal conclusion is proably wrong
Paper withdrawn by authors, due to crucial omission of higher resonances
Paper withdrawn by the authors for reasons explained in the relacement
Paper withdrawn due to a crucial algebraic error in section 3
Paper withdrawn due to errors
Paper withdrawn due to incorrect results
Paper withdrawn pending major revisions
Paper withdrawn pending resolution of this problem
Paper 

Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

2003-11-18 Thread Tim Brody

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Troy McClure wrote:


ive been browsing through the citebase and quite a few of such messages came up:

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors due to copyright.
http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?id=oai%3AarXiv%2Eorg%3Anlin%2F0301018


Stevan Harnad:

I have to admit that this is the first I've ever heard of any papers
being removed from Arxiv for copyright reasons. I will ask Tim Brody (creator
of citebase) to see whether there is a more sensitive way to do a count,
but using copyright and (remove or withdraw) I found 6 papers out
of the total quarter million since 1991.


There are only 13 deleted (flagged as such by arXiv's OAI interface)
papers in arXiv.org, or 0.005%.

One of those papers is available as an earlier version:
http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?id=oai%3AarXiv%2Eorg%3Anlin%2F0301018
(go to arXiv, click v1, get full-text)

Tim Brody


Re: Copyright: Form, Content, and Prepublication Incarnations

2003-11-18 Thread Chris Korycinski
On 15 Nov 2003 at 18:27, Stevan Harnad wrote:

 On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Dr.Vinod Scaria wrote:
 
v It is possible (this factor has not been monitored to date) that
v many researchers (those who are aware of the open access movement)
v are troubled by the possible copyright implications of open archives
v and access
 
 Fact: It is not only possible but certain that many researchers are
 troubled by the possible copyright implications of open archives and
 access. They are troubled by this as well as by at least 27 other
 equally groundless worries (see end of message).
 

But the worries _are_ there  they are also stopping both researchers 
and the university admin from supporting eprints in a wholehearted 
way.

The questions I constantly come up against are (a) copyright - from 
researchers; (b) copyright and the cost of maintaining the eprints 
service - from admin.

In fact the costs are to an extent tied together with the copyright issues. 
We can't let copyright material appear in eprints, so we have to check 
each one to make sure it is copyright-free, and this costs money as we 
have to pay someone to do it. Self-archiving is not seen as realistic, 
and for _some_ researchers this is undoubtedly true, which is why we 
have put a 'let us archive it for you' link on the eprints home page.

I wonder, are these the real reasons for failing to support the 
implementation of eprints, or just an excuse to leave matters well 
alone?

Regards

Chris Korycinski

St Andrews eprints administrator, Main Library
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