[Cosmo-torun] AA/2004/2055 (fwd)

[Boud Roukema]

Witam,
  Well, A&A has come up with a new excuse:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:03:30 +0200
> From: aanda.paris at obspm.fr
> To: boud at astro.uni.torun.pl
> Subject: AA/2004/2055
>
> 13/10/2004
>
> Dr Boudewijn F. Roukema
> boud at astro.uni.torun.pl
>
> Our Ref. : AA/2004/2055
>
> Dear Boud,

>   We were not aware of this paper in astro-ph by the Healpix team.
> Now that this is published, we do not think it possible for A&A to
> consider publishing a similar paper, even if you derived it
> independently, with different details.
> The motivation you had to publish it, is now gone. So you can
> understand that we can not unfortunately consider further your paper
> for A&A,
>
> with best wishes,
> The Editors




> The motivation you had to publish it, is now gone. So you can

Hmmm... In this case, it seems to me that the A&A Editors are stating
that they consider electronic publication as important as refereed
journal publication and that peer review of scientific papers is
unnecessary!

It is clear that some time we are going to have to reorganise the
methods by which A&A editors make decisions. After all, it's we the
astronomers who are supposed to run A&A, not the other way around.

When the Editors start saying that peer-reviewed publications is
unnecessary, we have a problem...

However, that's something for the long term.

pozdr
boud