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John37309
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Does anyone know what's the story with publishing scientific papers? Whats the process involved in publishing a science paper?
I read scientific papers all the time. I read a lot of papers on this arXiv.org website. But it seems you need someone to authorize you before you can upload papers to the website. I don't come from an academic background, I'm self-taught in the sciences. I don't have anyone to authorize me.
These are my questions;
1. If someone has authorized you, and you upload your paper to the arXiv.org website, is the paper considered to be "published" then simply because its sitting openly on that pre-print server for everyone to read?
2. Would you separately "apply" to the appropriate Journal to then "publish" your paper, maybe offering them the link to your paper that is now sitting openly on the arXiv.org website?
3. What about peer review? On the arXiv website, does your paper become public before peer review? Or does peer review happen when you apply to the appropriate Journal, then your paper is peer reviewed and accepted or rejected?
4. Cost or publishing? I inquired with one reputable journal about publishing scientific papers, but the cost runs into hundreds of US dollars. Who pays for scientific papers to be published? Universities and scientific institutions, is it? What if you just want to publish a paper and your doing it off your own steam?
5. What about viXra.org? Does this website have any credibility? Does anyone pay any attention to the scientific papers uploaded there? And if i just uploaded a scientific paper to viXra, is that the end of the story? Is that paper then "published"?
Be gentle with me, I'm new to publishing.
Thanks,
John.
I read scientific papers all the time. I read a lot of papers on this arXiv.org website. But it seems you need someone to authorize you before you can upload papers to the website. I don't come from an academic background, I'm self-taught in the sciences. I don't have anyone to authorize me.
These are my questions;
1. If someone has authorized you, and you upload your paper to the arXiv.org website, is the paper considered to be "published" then simply because its sitting openly on that pre-print server for everyone to read?
2. Would you separately "apply" to the appropriate Journal to then "publish" your paper, maybe offering them the link to your paper that is now sitting openly on the arXiv.org website?
3. What about peer review? On the arXiv website, does your paper become public before peer review? Or does peer review happen when you apply to the appropriate Journal, then your paper is peer reviewed and accepted or rejected?
4. Cost or publishing? I inquired with one reputable journal about publishing scientific papers, but the cost runs into hundreds of US dollars. Who pays for scientific papers to be published? Universities and scientific institutions, is it? What if you just want to publish a paper and your doing it off your own steam?
5. What about viXra.org? Does this website have any credibility? Does anyone pay any attention to the scientific papers uploaded there? And if i just uploaded a scientific paper to viXra, is that the end of the story? Is that paper then "published"?
Be gentle with me, I'm new to publishing.
Thanks,
John.