Research leaders to ARC: fix the pre-print problem

The Australian Research Council excluded research funding applications for breaking a new rule against citing pre-prints  

In CMM Features this morning two research community leaders, Sven Rogge (UNSW) and Nicholas Fisk (UNSW) suggest the ARC needs to deal with the damage done.

“It doesn’t help to dwell on how or why the rule was implemented, or its misalignment with modern publication culture. The important issue now is for the ARC to deal with this problem quickly,” they write.

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