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5 years ago

On the origin of nonequivalent states: How we can talk about preprints [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

Cameron Neylon, Geoffrey Bilder, Damian Pattinson, Jennifer Lin
Increasingly, preprints are at the center of conversations across the research ecosystem. But disagreements remain about the role they play. Do they “count” for research assessment? Is it ok to post preprints in more than one place? In this paper, we argue that these discussions often conflate two separate issues, the history of the manuscript and the status granted it by different communities. In this paper, we propose a new model that distinguishes the characteristics of the object, its “state”, from the subjective “standing” granted to it by different communities. This provides a way to discuss the difference in practices between communities, which will deliver more productive conversations and facilitate negotiation, as well as sharpening our focus on the role of different stakeholders on how to collectively improve the process of scholarly communications not only for preprints, but other forms of scholarly contributions.

Publisher URL: https://f1000research.com/articles/6-608/v1

DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.11408.1

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