--- abstract: |- Under the editorship of Franz Ingelfinger, the New England Journal of Medicine adopted a policy of declining to referee or publish research that had been previously published or publicised elsewhere. Other biomedical journals, as well as broad-spectrum journals such as Science, have since adopted this "Ingelfinger rule". The four rationales underlying this rule, formulated in the Gutenberg era, are examined here to see which of them are still valid post-Gutenberg. altloc: - http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.lancet.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Harnad given: Stevan honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2000-12 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-07-18 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/17/03 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1703 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/1703/1/harnad00.lancet.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'electronic publishing, Ingelfinger Rule, Copyright, publication embargo, self-archiving' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:45 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: s16 pubdom: FALSE publication: The Lancet publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |-2 Angell, M. & Kassirer, J.P. 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