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- From: connolly@piglet.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Help for Technical Report from CMU
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 23:57:29 GMT
- References: <103479@netnews.upenn.edu> <58199@dime.cs.umass.edu> <C097xD.9y8.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <C097xD.9y8.1@cs.cmu.edu>, dstewart+@cs.cmu.edu (David B Stewart) writes:
- |> First of all, our university library has many technical reports from
- |> other universities, as they are considered appropriate for citation.
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- Your library has tech reports *because* they are considered appropriate for
- citation? More likely, faculty asked for and possibly paid for the library's
- collection. That doesn't mean they're appropriate to cite.
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- |> Second, it is always possible to obtain a copy of a technical report
- |> at no cost, simply by contacting the department and university directly.
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- This is not universally true. Many universities charge money for technical
- reports. Moreover, at some universities, the publication of tech. reports
- is sporadic.
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- I have nothing against technical reports as a means of rapidly disseminating
- information, but as you yourself point out, they're not peer-reviewed, and I
- maintain that they're not consistently accessible enough to cite. Besides,
- the report in question was from 1986, and if it were of high enough quality,
- wouldn't it have been published elsewhere by now (see, e.g., Kevin Dowling's
- post)?
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- In any case, my complaint is that the reviewer told the author to cite the tech.
- report (which as it turns out is apparently obsolete). I suppose I wouldn't have
- a problem with an author citing tech. reports if the author were willing to send
- the reviewers copies of the report.
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