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- From: connolly@rabbit.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Help for Technical Report from CMU
- Summary: Just what *is* a reference, anyway?
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 22:27:21 GMT
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- In article <103479@netnews.upenn.edu> sarkar@tuna.cis.upenn.edu (Nilanjan Sarkar) writes:
- > I need to locate a technical report from Robotics Institute, CMU
- >which has been suggested by a reviewer of my paper.
-
- In other fields, technical reports are considered "inaccessible",
- hence not fair game for citation. This is a case in point, where the
- author is having a hard time tracking the thing down. If the idea is
- really worth citing, then it should have been published in a more
- accessible form. At the very least, the reviewer should have
- suggested a more solid reference.
-
- Oh well...
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