[OWW-SC] 'Publishing' on Pre-print services like arXiv.org

[Julius B. Lucks]

Hi SC,

Following up on last month's meeting, I would like to gather your  
ideas on how the OWW community might like to use a pre-print service  
such as arXiv.org or Nature Proceedings to 'publish' content  
originally created on OWW.

My first impression was that these pre-print services could be used  
as a stepping-stone towards more traditional publication - i.e. an  
article would be written with the OWW wiki, and when sufficiently  
polished, sent off to arXiv as an official pre-print.  This would  
provide a citeable uri for that version of the document, and would be  
used as the basis to notify the community of the polished work, as  
well as submit to a traditional peer-reviewed journal (if the authors  
desire).

In discussing this at the last SC meeting, Barry mentioned a very  
interesting possibility of posting non-article content such as lab  
protocols or reagent lists up on a pre-print archive.  I would like  
to brainstorm with you possible uses of pre-print archives.  In  
particular:

* Would you consider using a pre-print archive as a way to turn a  
wiki document into a journal article (wiki -> pre-print -> paper)?
** If so, are you ready to try this out, or do you know of anyone  
that is ready?  I would like to walk whoever is ready through the  
process with them and see how it goes.  I can also facilitate  
submission to arXiv.org's quantitative biology section if that is  
necessary.

* What other types of documents do you imagine posting on a pre-print  
archive?  (protocols, reagent lists, etc.)
** For each type of document, it would be great to know why the wiki  
page is insufficient for your purposes.  For example, Barry mentioned  
that reviewers were hesitant to honor a wiki link as a citeable  
document.

* What is the best way to ask the OWW community outside the SC these  
questions?

I would appreciate ALL of your comments.  I think arXiv.org is  
already prepared to handle traditional journal-article-like  
submissions, but might be more hesitant for other types of  
submissions.  I would like to get a list of ideas to before I discuss  
this with them.

Thanks for your help,

Cheers,

Julius


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