Errors in author's versions

[David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>]

I propose 2 working hypothesis:

I. There are no published medical articles having an author's OA 
version differing from the publisher's version, where the 
author's OA version has a error critically affecting patient 
care, and the publisher's version does not have the error.

II. There are no published medical articles having an author's OA 
version differing from the publisher's versions, where the 
publisher's version has a error critically affecting patient 
care, and the author's OA version does not have the error.

I also propose the stronger hypotheses:

III. There are no published scholarly scientific articles having 
an author's OA version differing from the publisher's version, 
where the author's OA version has a error invalidating the 
article as a whole, and the publisher's version does not have the 
error.

IV. There are no published scholarly scientific articles having 
an author's OA versions differing from the publisher's version, 
where the publisher's version has a error invalidating the 
article as a whole, and the author's OA version does not have the 
error.

I propose these as hypotheses; I know of no examples 
contradicting any of the four, and several knowledgable people 
have also no examples to offer.

(There will presumably be some less drastic differences, whose 
frequency and importance is a matter for further investigation.)

Examples will be of interest, online or off.

I mention that I expected to easily identify a significant number 
of such examples, and have failed to find any; I have not the 
least idea or prejudice whether such articles do exist.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
and formerly
Princeton University Library

dgoodman@princeton.edu