Re: EPRINTS = PREPRINTS (unrefereed) + POSTPRINTS (refereed)

2000-05-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
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

Re: EPRINTS = PREPRINTS (unrefereed) + POSTPRINTS (refereed)

2000-05-18 Thread Simon Buckingham Shum
At 9:21 am +0100 18/5/00, Thomas Krichel wrote: ... 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