Hello Stevan,
Yes, the policy of Academic Press (see below)
is indeed enlightened, and a shining example to other
publishing houses. Authors who intend to post their
own work at their own server will in future tend to
submit their papers to Academic Press rather than to
other publishing houses.
The journal remains the authentic, dated, repository,
which, certainly in its widely-distributed, paper, form,
cannot be changed. This leaves the author free to embellish
the paper in his personal repository (server) with figures
and diagrams and colour (which space and economic
limitations prohibit in the actual journal). Authors who do
change their work in a material way should state this on
their server version. Failure to do so, can be discovered
by checking against the paper version, so there will be
some incentive for authors to conform (or redate the work
as a fresh personal server publication).
Sincerely,
Donald Forsdyke. Discussion Leader. Bionet.journals.note
Stevan Harnad wrote:
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Franck Ramus wrote:
> >
> > Here is what I found at Academic Press:
> >
> > ...
> > 3. Personal Servers
> > 3.2. When an Academic Press journal accepts the work for publication, the
> > authors may post it, in its final accepted form, on their personal servers
> > (but not on any organized preprint server) with a notice Accepted for
> > publication in <name of journal> as of <date>, until it is published by
> > Academic Press in print or electronic form.
> > 3.3. After publication, authors may post their Academic Press copyrighted
> > material on their own servers without permission, provided that the server
> > displays as the first line of the HTML page the following notice alerting
> > readers to their obligations with respect to copyrighted material: This
> > material has been published in <name of journal, issue number and date, page
> > numbers>, the only definitive repository of the content that has been
> > certified and accepted after peer review. Copyright and all rights therein
> > are retained by Academic Press. This material may not be copied or reposted
> > without explicit permission.
