[Irtalk] FW: Citing the original publication

[Smith, Ina <ismith@sun.ac.za>]

Dear Colleagues

Feedback from Stevan Harnad on whether to cite the original article in the publishers' journal, or the second copy in the IR.
We recommend researchers to use the IR copy, but to cite the original publication. According to Stevan Harnad this is the standard way to deal with citations.

Maybe you find this helpful.

Kind regards
Ina

Ina Smith
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From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 26 June 2014 04:06 PM
To: Smith, Ina <ismith at sun.ac.za>
Subject: Re: Citing the original publication

Hi Ina, you wrote:


I just want to bounce what we are doing against somebody pro green access. Is what we are doing above board?

Researchers can use the OA copy in the IR, and since the content is exactly the same, cite the publishers' version, although the researcher did not actually use the publishers' version. My view: This could be a win-win solution - the researcher gains since he/she doesn't have to pay for access, and the publisher gains since the journal receives more citations, impacting on the journal impact factor. Personally I support this way. In the end the publisher can gain lots of publicity through Open Access. See how we apply it. So far nobody has complained:

Yes, that's the standard way of doing Green OA everywhere: If you don't have a subscription to the journal, use the OA version, but always cite the canonical version (the journal citation).

It's completely irrelevant to even mention which version a researcher "actually uses" (journal, xerox, copy from author, OA version, online on-paper etc.). Authors will learn to make sure that the OA version of their paper is the same text and images as the publisher version (though the format and pagination might differ). When citing or quoting specific passages, users should refer to them by section name and paragraph number if they do not have access to the canonical paginated version. This is no problem whatsoever in the era when text is searched by online character-string search, not pagination.

I wouldn't set much store on the journal's being thrilled by the extra citations, but the authors certainly will be!

Best wishes,

Stevan



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