The Impact of Self-Publishing on Information Management

by:

Patricia A. Kreitz

Heath O'Connell

Molly M. Moss

DRAFT of a paper to be presented at AAAS 2000, Washington D.C. Feb. 2000

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Table of Contents   The Impact of Self-Publishing on Information Management   This talk will explore   The SPIRES-High Energy Physics database:   Self-publishing is expanding beyond particle physics:   Publication rates of e-prints in selected journals (from the HEP database):   Presently, e-prints are more traditional than radical:   Publishers, e.g. Phys. Rev. D, are experimenting with access to e-prints:   Some peer-reviewed journals are defining their corpus as e-prints:   Self-publishing has created new challenges & opportunities   Snapshot of the database and library in 1991:   Snapshot of the database and library in 1999:   Records evolve through more stages and require more staff teamwork:   In the database records, can see the real beginnings of change:   Electronic preprints present new challenges for bibliographic control:   Near-term response by the Library:   What will be the lasting effects of self-publishing?   At the bleeding edge, traditional articles may disappear:   As we follow that bleeding edge, ‘traditional’ database may disappear:

Authors: Patricia A. Kreitz, Heath O'Connell & Molly M. Moss Email: pkreitz@slac.stanford.edu hoc@slac.stanford.edu mmoss@slac.stanford.edu URL: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/

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