On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Albert Henderson wrote: > > > sh> virtually all of the self-archived preprints in arxiv are > > > sh> submitted to refereed journals, revised... [etc] > > > > http://opcit.eprints.org/tdb198/opcit/ > > In his analysis of the papers on the LANL > server, Tim Brody tells us: > > "The proportion of papers that have got > Journal-ref entries is 36.87%." This > would include those that are submitted > after formal publication rather than > being first submitted as preprints. > > Thank you for your help. It appears that the physics > situation is much the same as the informal literature > studied by Garvey and others.
All that datum tells you is what proportion of the papers have the final journal citation inserted by their authors, not what proportion are submitted or published. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad [email protected] Professor of Cognitive Science [email protected] Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html You may join the list at the site above. Discussion can be posted to: [email protected]
