Re:The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
by frenchyatwork on Friday January 10, 2020 @11:45AM
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I'm curious what would happen if a new paper tried to reference previous papers published in ArXiv instead of the traditional publishers. From a strictly academic perspective, I can't think of any reason why this would be a problem, apart from the existential problem it causes for traditional publishers.
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Re:The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
by improbable22 on Friday January 10, 2020 @03:14PM
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Citing papers which aren't yet published by their arxiv numbers is routine. (And, before 1991, people did the same using the author's institute's preprint numbers.) If they have appeared in a journal by the time yours is accepted by a journal, then you should add the journal info too. (Although many journals now allow you to leave the arxiv numbers as an additional part of each reference.)