How do physicists use an e-print archive? Implications for institutional e-print services

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Pinfield, Stephen (2001) How do physicists use an e-print archive? Implications for institutional e-print services. D-Lib Magazine, 7 (12).

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Abstract

It has been suggested that institutional e-print services will become an important way of achieving the wide availability of e-prints

across a broad range of subject disciplines. However, as yet there are few exemplars of this sort of service. This paper describes how

physicists make use of an established centralized subject-based e-prints service, arXiv (formerly known as the Los Alamos XXX

service), and discusses the possible implications of this use for institutional multidisciplinary e-print archives. A number of key points

are identified, including technical issues (such as file formats and user interface design), management issues (such as submission

procedures and administrative staff support), economic issues (such as installation and support costs), quality issues (such as peer

review and quality control criteria), policy issues (such as digital preservation and collection development standards), academic issues

(such as scholarly communication cultures and publishing trends), and legal issues (such as copyright and intellectual property rights).

These are discussed with reference to the project to set up a pilot institutional e-print service at the University of Nottingham, UK.

This project is being used as a pragmatic way of investigating the issues surrounding institutional e-print services, particularly in seeing

how flexible the e-prints model actually is and how easily it can adapt itself to disciplines other than physics.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1023013
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Professional services > Information Services
Depositing User: Pinfield, Stephen
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2001
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:32
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/51

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