LPSC 2012 Options

[machi]

It looks, that LPSC abstracts for this year are now available - LPSC 2012.
As last year, I made two files for downloading abstracts via download manager (I'm using Free Download Manager).
One is for sessions and second one is for automatic download of all pdfs between indexes 1001 and 2999.

Attached File(s)

 Lpsc2012_1001_2999.txt ( 109.32K ) Number of downloads: 465
 LpscSessions101_818.txt ( 8.87K ) Number of downloads: 373

 

[Phil Stooke]

Tons of fantastic stuff!

Phil

[ngunn]

Yes, but nobody's talking about it. I've already posted links to three abstracts on Titan, but from the rest of the solar system there is no comment so far. Am I breaking a taboo? Do we refrain from discussing the abstracts until the conference is held? If so, please tell me and I'll get in line. I was hoping some headlines would be highlighted by our experts on Mars at least.

[elakdawalla]

Am I breaking a taboo? Do we refrain from discussing the abstracts until the conference is held?

This is a good question to ask, but you are not. There's been some controversy in recent years about professional societies attempting to enforce an embargo on abstracts that were freely available online. But that's not how embargoes work. An embargo is part of an agreement between a journalist and somebody with privileged information. If the journalist agrees not to publicize the information until a set date, then the person gives the privileged information to the journalist, under embargo. But you cannot enforce an embargo upon people who have not agreed to these terms. It makes no sense to post material publicly and then tell people they cannot discuss it. Here's a good place to read about the notion of things being "freely available but embargoed." Some scientists may be uncomfortable about these things being discussed because they fear the Ingelfinger rule, but both Science and Nature now have explicit policies stating that discussion of ongoing work at conferences and in abstracts does not constitute prior publication.