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The Horse That Drank: Electronic Communication and the High Energy Physics Community

Abstract

High energy physicists submit their papers to electronic archives, have them published in electronic journals and indexed in online databases. Despite this system now having been in place basically in its entirety since the middle of the `90's, other fields have been slow to follow. What makes high energy physics special (and what doesn't)?

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