Re: [tlug] Journals, Authors and 'Free Peer Review'

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 08:34 PM, Raymond Wan wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 07:47 PM, Darren Cook wrote:
> > Interesting point. I'd have said yes - an arxiv search 
> > should be done
> > when doing journal searches. But then I mostly read 
> > computer science
>
> Oops!!  Sorry, I should have given credit where credit was 
> due...
>
> The points I raised weren't actually by me but by an ACM 
> society that was conducting a survey last year that was 
> asking for opinions from their members.  That's when I 
> realized this whole issue of preprint servers is by no means 
> "solved".


Ah!  I found the survey and it was actually early this year. 
 Yes, the results of the survey are public.

If anyone is interested, feel free to take a look:

http://sigir.org/forum/issues/june-2018/

(See "SIGIR Community Survey on Preprint Services" by Diane 
Kelly.)

My opinions [until now] were mine alone -- I found these 
results just now.

Ray