This is especially directed to Stevan Harnad re: his proposal that authors of refereed journal articles should self-archive their final- form articles and thus make them accessible on the Web. It is a small but practical question: At least in the Humanities disiciplines, journal articles can be of significant length (perhaps longer than most "hard" science articles), often 15-30pp or even more. Now a full citation requirement = author, article title, journal, vol., year, and pp. of the article and the specific p. of the portion being cited/quoted. In paper form articles have such page numbers. Would/do self- archived articles have the vol. & page numbers borne by the articles in the paper-print journal? I assume so. If not (e.g., if what is archived is a pre-print form), then someone citing the Web version would have no fixed citation point (rather like not having standardized latitude-longitude for giving location). Now in "pure" (i.e., e-form only/original) electronic publication, as we know, various e-form markers are put in (e.g., numbered paragraphs, or even page numbers of the Web formatted version). But when an essay appears also in paper-form, won't it be important for any citation to enable a researcher to find and verify the citation quickly, and isn't the ideal to have some citation format that allows the researcher to verify either/both the paper-form and the e-form? (This is obviously a simple request for information/suggestion and not offered as an antagonistic question.) Larry Hurtado
L. W. Hurtado University of Edinburgh, New College Mound Place Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 2LX Phone: 0131-650-8920 Fax: 0131-650-6579 E-mail: [email protected]
