most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-24T04:21:25Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/64949 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/64949/preprints-and-e-prints Federico Poloni 2011-05-13T23:26:38Z 2011-05-14T08:32:50Z

<p>What are the best practices on publishing preprints and e-prints of your results?</p> <p>The standard at my current workgroup is the following:</p> <ol> <li>make a preprint at our preprint server as soon as it's done, "to put a timestamp on it" <ul> <li>make an e-print at our e-print server just before publishing, "to have all the work of the group available in the same place, and accessible in a reasonably final version without paying license fees"</li> </ul></li> </ol> <p>In addition, I believe in the utility of arXiv as a "global" e-print server, and I try to put my papers there, too. However, this whole process seems redundant to me. I think that arXiv could replace 1 and 2 without many drawbacks. I am a bit perplexed about the necessity to use two separate servers (and two sets of metadata to update manually).</p> <blockquote> <p>How is the "publishing history" of your results? Which preprint or e-print servers do you use? What are the important points to care about when making preliminary versions available?</p> </blockquote> <p>Additionally, it would be interesting to know how much of the "tedious work" of data entering can actually be automated:</p> <blockquote> <p>In how many different places do you update the metadata for your papers manually (including your website and CV)? Is there a smart way have a preprint/eprint server do your work and avoid typing in title, authors and journal number about ten different times?</p> </blockquote>