Steve Hitchcock writes
Paul Ginsparg defined an eprint as something self-archived by the author.
Isn't that the clearest distinction, and an obvious one for this forum to
draw?
I tend to think of an eprint as a public-access scientific document
in electronic form. The insistance on
At 9:21 am +0100 18/5/00, Thomas Krichel wrote:
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The problem with self-archiving by authors is the growing tendency
of authors to deposit their papers in homepages. It is debatable
if this sort of activity is real archiving. What we need is to
have more agents, acting on behalf of