In a message dated 9/13/2009 3:19:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ft2.wiki(a)gmail.com writes:
> Papers are reviewed annually, or upon major new information, so they
> become a living document -- the paper on the higgs boson as it is now,
> and
> the same paper as it was a year, 2 years ago, showing the advance of
> knowledge and correcting itself as time passes and knowledge develops.>>
>
>
I would say that by this we'd have to mean that a paper cannot change. In
that way it has to behave like a print version. Once it's set, than it
can't change, otherwise the voting and review process would no longer match the
current state of the paper.
Rather, like print, if a new paper is submitted, even by the same author on
the same topic, it has to be a new entry in "this month's" journal, not a
modification of a now-historical version.
Will