I have recently come across two cases of an author asking for their
paper to be withdrawn from the proceedings (online, OA) of a
conference.
I am pursing these cases as I can to find out why. I assume that the
conferences did not have an appropriate license agreement allowing
them to make the
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Surely the most common case is that the article contained or was based on a
mistake that the authors now find
I think the 'correct' procedure, according to the guidelines I have seen
(sorry, can't track these down - perhaps others can remind me?), is to post
a correction, linked to the original article wherever possible, and only
actually to withdraw it for legal, safety or similar overriding reasons, and
Arthur Smith:
Surely the most common case is that the article contained or was based
on a mistake that the authors now find embarrassing. Such things often
are revealed in peer review, so if these proceedings were subject to
only skimpy or no review there could easily be such problems. Do
