Re: Electronic Preprints...

[Carol Hutchins <ch3@SCIRES.ACF.NYU.EDU>]

Heather,  you might want to peek at the PAMnet archive page,

http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind9904&L=pamnet

and  especially the note from Pat Kreitz.  She tells us about a useful
SLAC report summarizing recent experiences with managing "grey" lit.

Of course, it isn't at all clear how this might play in the life sciences.

				--Carol

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On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Heather Joseph wrote:

:I don't know if you saw the article by Eliot Marshall in Science two weeks
:ago, about the NIH's proposal to create a large scale electronic preprint
:server, but it's an interesting proposition (spearheaded by David Lipman
:and Pat Brown). What are others' impressions of how electronic preprints
:have affected e-journals in fields such as astronomy and physics. I've
:been doing some catch-up reading (I read Bob Hanisch's article on
:incorporating preprints into a e-pub system, some of Ginsparg's
:publications, an articel by Harry Payne on e-prints, some info on the JCP
:"CoPrint" experiment, and Boyce's excellent paper from the INET meeting,
:etc.)
:
:My initial reaction to the NIH idea is that there is a definite need for
:this type of service, and that in the best case scenario, we end up with
:some distributed e-print servers that act as the first layer for rapid
:dissemination for science, and that the e-journals continue to play their
:role as the archival validators of the state of the science.
:
:I'd love to be able to hear what some of the impressions of the physics
:and astronomy communities have been and how preprints have affected the
:journals in these fields. I believe that the biology community is in a
:similiar position to where the astronomy community was about five years
:ago, and any chance to help avoid pitfalls and take advantage of lessons
:learned will be helpful.
:
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:Heather Dalterio Joseph
:Director of Publishing
:ASCB
:9650 Rockville Pike
:Bethesda, MD 20814
:301-571-1857
:hjoseph@ascb.org
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