<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi SC,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Would you consider using a pre-print archive as a way to turn a wiki document into a journal article (wiki -> pre-print -> paper)?</DIV><DIV>** 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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* What other types of documents do you imagine posting on a pre-print archive? (protocols, reagent lists, etc.)</DIV><DIV>** 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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* What is the best way to ask the OWW community outside the SC these questions?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for your help,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Julius</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV>Please Reply to My Permanent Address: <A href="mailto:julius@younglucks.com">julius@younglucks.com</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/User:Julius_B._Lucks">http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/User:Julius_B._Lucks</A></DIV><DIV>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>