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The fruits of self-archiving
Stevan Harnad
In collaboration with: Les Carr, Steve Hitchcock, Rob Tansley, Zhuoan Jiao, Tim Brody, Chris Gutteridge,
John Greenland, Cathy Hunt, Matt Hemus, Tim Chown, Adrian Pickering (and of course Wendy Hall)
BBS 1978 -
• Impact Factor: 15• Open Peer
Commentary• Turnaround time• Navigability• Space constraints• Waiting for its medium
to come into its own...
Psycoloquy 1989 -
• Online homologue of BBS
• Authors still timid• Sponsored by APA• Indexed by ISI/APA
since 2000 -• Still waiting for its
time to come...
Scholarly Skywriting 1990
Harnad, S. (1990) Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry. Psychological Science 1: 342 - 343 (reprinted in Current Contents 45: 9-13, November 11 1991).
Harnad, S. (1991) Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge. Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2 (1): 39 - 53
Harnad, S. (1992) Interactive Publication: Extending American Physical Society's Discipline-Specific Model for Electronic Publishing. Serials Review, Special Issue on Economics Models for Electronic Publishing, pp. 58 - 61.
Los Alamos Physics arXiv 1991-
• Started as preprint email list
• Then became web eprints site
• Since growing and growing (currently 30K papers deposited a year, total so far 150K papers)
• But still only growing linearly...
Subversive Proposal 1994
• The proposal to free the research literature through self-archiving
• Originally formulated for anonymous FTP and WWW home-page
• Self-archiving’s time still waiting to come...
CogPrints 1997 -
• Generalize eprint self-archiving in Physics to the Cognitive Sciences
• Much better interface than arXiv (Matt Hemus, Rob Tansley, Chris Gutteridge)
• But still only 1K papers so far...
American Scientist Forum 1998 -
• Discussing ways to free the research literature
• CalTech Provosts’s Initiative (Scholars’ Forum) 1998
• Ebiomed - PubmedCentral - BioMed Central 1999
OpCit 1999 -
• Citation Linking of Physics arXiv
• Generalizing to distributed archives
• New scientometric analyses and measures
Open Archives Initiative 1999 -
• Interoperability through uniform metadata sharing
• Central and Distributed Archiving
• Harvesting into global “virtual” archives
• Open-archiving not= Self-archiving
eprints.org 2000 -
• Generalization of CogPrints
• OAI-compliant• Eprint-archive-
creating software• Will distributed
institutional self-archiving do it at last…?