RG is starting a survey asking members why they don't publish preprints. I think, in special cases it could be an advantage to publish a paper which is not ready and "mature" in all details. But in general I don't support the sudden interest of RG to get more preprint uploaders. There exists another problem of your publishing as carrier-promoting measure: The main problem in my situation is to get a license in a short time from the journal-/ or he book-publisher if you have published there some interesting research results. It endures sometimes several years until they agree to give the allowance of publishing the article or book in an open-acces online platform, like RG. That is understandable, they want to sell your literary property, and they have to fight for their own survival.
Howsoever: Other scientific online portals offer users the opportunity always to correct und to refine the script. That seems to me a good way to come from a preprint to a mature script. The problem is: RG doesn't allow this procedure. Here you are forced to delete the current version and to upload in a new process the improved version. - You may put back the old version in the "private area", but this does't touch the main problem. There I am somewhat sceptical regarding the new preprint drive of RG - What is your opinion?
No doubt, you are right for some cases which concern publishing in open access platforms and in open access journals. Accepted by a highly appreciated print journal (and also by an important online journal) you have to confirm that your paper didn't published elsewhere before. If you follow the idea that RG readers or specialists may control or refine the paper, then it is a moral issue (and not much desirable, in my own view) to let discuss and improve some statements - and to assure later: "The final version is another paper, so it has been unpublished before."
Obviously RG has no particular interest to support problematic aspects of pre-prints, and also for yourself it is not enjoyable to draw back resp. to transform your precious paper (with many interested readers) suddenly from the public to the private RG-area when this requires the conditions of publication in a journal of high esteem. If you intend, for instance, to insert this text as a chapter of a larger publication then the text may remain open accessible.
Always we are asked by RG to make private copies publicly, the priviate area should be used, says RG, as additional security for the published text - as far as I understand the permanent invitation of RG of uploading a copy. Of course, we may discuss this furthermore, thanks for your contribution.
Hi,
The main thing in RG is that it allows you to decide what you are doing with your papers and preprints. The RG platform has its characteristics and limitations and one has to find his way in this array. Generally, papers you write, and in your judgement have a good chance of being published soon in a reasonably good journal, should not appear on RG as a pre-print, since this could create a problem with the journal's publisher.
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