Author: LISA JANICKE HINCHLIFFE
Control of the “Version of Record” has come to serve as one of the greatest assets of scholarly publishers. It allows them to maintain their centrality in the scholarly communication system. An important strand of the green open access movement has as its purpose to disrupt the value of the Version of Record (VOR). In turn, publishers are struggling to maintain control on this front. In the end, the set of views about the VOR that matter most are those of researchers. A study of researchers indicates that a preprint or accepted manuscript can substitute for the version of record in some use cases but not all.
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