[esa-t474] Submitting in 24 hours and counting...

[Matthew Wing]

Hi there,

I would also go along with Eric - submitting to the arXiv produces useful 
feedback and they have versioning so there should be no confusion about 
which is the final paper.

Cheers,
Matthew.

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Eric Torrence wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    At least with arXiv, you can replace an initial version
> with a revised version.  This is a "preprint" server, and
> aside from a few theorists, most people understand it as
> such.  It is precisely a mechanism for getting a preprint
> out there for people to look at while referees are reviewing
> it for a journal.  In papers I have submitted, I have often
> received more useful comments from preprint readers than
> I have from the PRL referees.  I would not hesitate posting
> it to arXiv.  I don't know anything about the EuroTeV
> procedure.  Here you may want to be more cautious.
> 
> Regards,
> -Eric
> 
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Adolphsen, Chris wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I would think it would be better not to have two versions floating around -
> > I would not mind waiting to 'get it right' (or at least make it better
> > understandable by people who have not been involved in the measurements).
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yury Kolomensky [mailto:YGKolomensky at lbl.gov]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:22 PM
> > To: Adolphsen, Chris
> > Cc: Yury Kolomensky; Mark Slater; esa-t474 at hep.ucl.ac.uk
> > Subject: Re: [esa-t474] Submitting in 24 hours and counting...
> > 
> >      Hi Chris,
> > 
> > it's a matter of taste and convenience. arXiv accepts resubmissions,
> > and it's quite common to submit both the submitted and the accepted
> > versions of the paper there (at least for BaBar it is). Same for SLAC-
> > PUB, but I do not know about EuroTeV. We should at least get their
> > numbers. The other argument is time scale. NIM review will probably
> > take a few months at least, so it would be good to disseminate the
> > information earlier (e.g. so that it can be referenced in conf
> > writeups, job searches, and the like). But on the other hand, this is
> > not a hot-off-the-stove major discovery, and we've been at it for a
> > year, so it may be OK to wait.
> > 
> > Yury
> > 
> > On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Adolphsen, Chris wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > When this paper is reviewed at NIM, the reviewers want changes
> > > made, so should we not wait until the final version is accepted
> > > before submitting it to EuroTev, SLAC PUB and arxiv.
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Slater [mailto:slater at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk]
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:18 AM
> > > To: esa-t474 at hep.ucl.ac.uk
> > > Subject: [esa-t474] Submitting in 24 hours and counting...
> > > 
> > > Dear all,
> > > 
> > > I've uploaded the versions of the papers I plan to submit. They are
> > > on the
> > > CVS server and also:
> > > 
> > > http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~slater/esabpm.pdf
> > > http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~slater/esabpm_et.pdf
> > > 
> > > (et == EuroTeV version)
> > > 
> > > I will submit them to the following in 24 hours time (Friday PM, UK
> > > time):
> > > 
> > > NIM
> > > EuroTev
> > > SLAC Pub
> > > arxiv
> > > 
> > > If anyone has any problems with this please let me know ASAP!
> > > 
> > > Many Thanks for everyone's help in getting this paper finished!
> > > 
> > > Mark
> > > 
> > > P.S. Does anyone know how to add the SLAC Pub number to the top
> > > right of
> > > the paper or do SLAC Pub do that themselves?
> > > 
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