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Seems like an alternative definition of the word “publish” given it’s freely available for anyone to read…
by harry8 3y ago
Seems like an alternative definition of the word “publish” given it’s freely available for anyone to read…
- IanCal 3y agoNo just a standard use of the term for academia.
- dekhn 3y agoPeople argue about whether putting stuff on arxiv constitutes "publication". I like the loose definition of publish (it's available for a wide audience to read, with at most, pay barriers) but other folks do not. There is still a huge cachet in being able to point at a peer-reviewed paper in a prestigious journal, no doubt, and many people will consider arxiv a preprint server, not a publication. (in the old days, after your article was accepted, but before it was published, they'd send you a few copies labelled "preprint" that you could distribute informally)