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Hello, I wanted to ask people if they know of any journals that will not accept papers for submission if they have been already posted on arxiv. I am personally interested in Logic Journals, but people can contribute their experiences from any field. I guess I could read all the fine print the publishers have on their webpages, but I am trying to see if anyone had any problems.

Just to contribute my part, I didn't have problems with the Journal of Symbolic Logic and the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic.

Thank you for your help.

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    $\begingroup$ Publishing.mathforge.org is more interested in changes to the system, but is a better place than MathOverflow for this question. Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2012.03.14 $\endgroup$ Mar 14, 2012 at 15:28
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    $\begingroup$ Although I have no experience with logic journals, I have plenty with other math journals. I can't imagine any journal worth anything to adopt such an outrageous policy. Submission to the arxiv would be the equivalent of putting it on your web page or mailing preprints the old fashioned way. It is not the equivalent to being published. $\endgroup$ Mar 14, 2012 at 17:00
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    $\begingroup$ why was this question closed? and who cares whether it's community-wiki or not? It's definitely an issue of interest to the mathematical community, I don't see why it shouldn't belong to MO. $\endgroup$ Mar 14, 2012 at 18:41
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    $\begingroup$ In light of the discussion here, I started a meta thread. Please vote this comment up so that it appears above the fold. tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1325/… $\endgroup$ Mar 14, 2012 at 22:03
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    $\begingroup$ I see the question was reopened and then reclosed. I posted the same question on publishing.mathforge.org as people suggested. The consensus seems to be that the default arxiv license does not create any problems, but other licenses, e.g. creative commons (the two used by arxiv) and public domain, may create a problem. If you have any experience for the opposite, please share on publishing.mathforge.org/discussion/75/problems-with-journal-submissions-due-to-arxiv-submission/ Thank you. $\endgroup$ Mar 15, 2012 at 17:06

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This recent article in the AMS notices has a handy checklist of the explicit rights given to authors in the standard publishing agreements with various publishers:

http://www.ams.org/notices/201203/rtx120300436p.pdf

Notice that there is often a distinction between the treatment of an "author-created version" and the "publisher version" of an article.

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William Stein has a site on "Journal Copyright Gossip"... LINK

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    $\begingroup$ This was a great site, but it hasn't been updated in about ten years, and many journal policies may have changed in the meantime. $\endgroup$
    – Henry Cohn
    Mar 14, 2012 at 22:55
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    $\begingroup$ They have definitely changed in the meantime... $\endgroup$
    – David Roberts
    Mar 15, 2012 at 0:31

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