Double Submissions – Publishing Misconduct or Just Effective Dissemination?

This article is an editorial note submitted to CCR. It has NOT been peer reviewed. The author takes full responsibility for this article’s technical content. Comments can be posted through CCR Online. As the community develops an ever more diverse set of venues for disseminating and discussing technical work and as the traditional resource constraints change from pages and shelf space to reviewer time, the traditional prohibition against double submission deserves closer consideration. We discuss reasons why double submissions have been frowned upon, and try to establish a set of guidelines that ensure appropriate review and dissemination, without preventing informal early discussion of research projects