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- Title
Post-print archives: parasite or symbiont?
- Authors
Richardson, Martin
- Abstract
This article comments on initiatives and debates around authors depositing post-prints of their articles in institutional repositories. Post-prints are not the final article. A widely held definition of a post-print is the final draft of an author's manuscript, as accepted for publication, incorporating referees' suggestions, but before it has undergone the copyediting and proof-correction process. A reader is faced with two copies of the same article at different stages of the publication process. If the author has previously deposited a pre-print on a pre-print server, or on their own personal or institution's Web site, then there is a third version. Citation analysis is also used to assess the quality of an individual author's work, both by their peers, their employers and by grant-awarding authorities. If the trends of self-archiving of postprints continue, it would potentially threaten the revenue streams that underwrite the processes of publication. If, as a result of the widespread use of post-print archives, journals begin to see the sort of declines in paid subscriptions that those offering free online archives are experiencing, this could result in further price escalation that will restrict availability rather than enhance it.
- Subjects
PUBLISHING; PERIODICALS; ARCHIVES; COPYING; AUTHORS
- Publication
Learned Publishing, 2005, Vol 18, Issue 3, p221
- ISSN
0953-1513
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1087/0953151054636200