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当然,会议论文如果以书或杂志增刊出版了的话,那就算发表了,一般不可以再投了(除非有足够的扩充)。比如LNCS里就有写明,出版社有独家发表权,作者保留的权利该不大了。 http://www.springer.co ... 0-45-154182-0 The copyright transfer covers the sole right to print, publish, distribute and sell throughout the world。。。
如果有一部分内容在会议论文集上发表过,投期刊的时候如何写cover letter呢?
编辑一般不会细看coverletter。小部分内容重复,文章里引用前面的会议文章就可以了。若有很多重复,甚至只是做了小的修改,一般要写清楚:“An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International Conference on...”。实际上,根据会议文章扩充修改投到杂志的,在文章的acknowledgement 或footnote里最好写上这句(像感谢赞助单位一样)。
但是国外的期刊都要求,要发表的文章没有发表过,比如Elsevier的大部分杂志,在IEEE数据库里与这个要求不知道冲突不。下面摘了段Elsevier某杂志的Submission declaration Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
国外国际会议主要是“交流”,不是发表。当然“会议文集”很多也出版,但还是可以算是extended abstract或published lecture(会议作报告就是lecture,文章是会议交流的内容就可以叫published lecture)。杂志文章和会议论文也不算“in the same form”(Ei里也是明显分开的)。