> 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.
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
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paper to be withdrawn from the proceedings (online, OA) of a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 embarrass
