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Preprint Law

The document explores the viability of preprints in legal scholarship, discussing their potential as a form of reference, protection of work, and means to initiate timely discourse. It highlights concerns regarding credibility, alterations by journals, and the informal nature of preprints. Recommendations include clarifying journal policies, as only 45% of humanities journals allow preprints compared to 91% in life sciences and earth sciences.

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Preprint Law

The document explores the viability of preprints in legal scholarship, discussing their potential as a form of reference, protection of work, and means to initiate timely discourse. It highlights concerns regarding credibility, alterations by journals, and the informal nature of preprints. Recommendations include clarifying journal policies, as only 45% of humanities journals allow preprints compared to 91% in life sciences and earth sciences.

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Exploring the

Viability of Preprints
in the 'Exclusive'
Domain of Legal
Scholarship
Sayere Nazabi Sayem
Slide 3
Introduction

• What are preprints?


• Where are they published?

Aim: –
• Form of reference?
• Protection of work?
• Initiate timely discourse
• Cheaper and feasible?
• Avoiding alteration of work?
• Running since 1991 Source: https://arxiv.org/html/2501.10507v1
• HTML
• PDF
• Editable
• Contains DOI Number for citation
Other sites allowing Preprints:
• ResearchGate
• Academia
• SSRN
Source: Preprints: What you need to know before posting your work. (n.d.). https://
thinkscience.co.jp/en/articles/preprints
Form of
Reference?
• Equivalent to online journals or academic blog
posts? Or mere websites?
• Alterations? Credibility?
• Hesitation of journals?
• Plagiarism?
Protection of Work
• Timely discourse
• Avoid the long review process
• Prevent stealing of ideas
• Editable? Editable!
• Cheap & Feasible
Avoiding alterations
by journals?
• Lack of specialization of peer reviewers?
• Too many changes?
• Lack of trust?
Concerns
• Too informal?
• Peer Review >>
• Credible preprint servers?
• Free things — it costs you a lot more
than you think
Recommendations

• Journal Policies Research suggests that 91% of all journals allow preprints
• Preprint rules? of the life sciences & earth sciences journals; on the other
hand; in the humanities, only 45% journals do.
• Cannot publish elsewhere? Source: Klebel, T., Reichmann, et al.. (2020). Peer review and preprint policies are unclear at most
• Complement other research major journals. PLoS ONE, 15(10), e0239518. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239518
QUESTIONS?

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