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Working paper summary, 3/4.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DEGRAY%SJC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu)
Tue Jun 30 11:59:59 1992
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1992 10:51:01 CDT
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Working Paper summary PART 3
From: IN%"jaffe@ucscm.UCSC.EDU" 4-JUN-1992 14:02:17.12
(Lee Jaffe, McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz, 408/459-3297)
Yes, yes, yes!
-- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz
From: IN%"watkins@ucsce.UCSC.EDU" 4-JUN-1992 14:06:10.28
Our computer science department posts the full text of most of its
technical report series on a public ftp server for anyone to access,
plus a file of titles and abstracts of all their reports. This seems
increasingly common and is certainly a good way of distributing them.
You don't have to worry about how many to print up, people can get
them from any computer without having to request a copy, etc. The
main difficulty I see is in letting people know that they exist.
There is some sort of list of ftp sites maintained centrally on the
Internet, but I'm at a loss right now as to exactly where. It would
certainly be useful to advertise such a service on the bitnet lists
and you might want to look at the service offered by the AMS that
offers similar types of listings (telnet to e-math.ams.com and log
in as e-math, with password e-math). If you want to look at the
computer science reports here at U.C. Santa Cruz, ftp to ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
and look in the various directories there. We're looking to mount the
abstracts as a searchable file on a library server sometime soon.
Good luck with your project--I think everyone should be encouraged
to make this sort of local information widely available; there's often
no other easy way to get it.
Steve Watkins
Science Library
University of California, Santa Cruz
watkins@ucsce.ucsc.edu
watkins@ucsce.bitnet
From: IN%"libswain@ucs.indiana.edu" 5-JUN-1992 12:21:40.59
There is a fairly large demand for "working/occasional" papers, especially
in the hard sciences where advances are pretty much out of date by the time
they're published in the journals. This is especially the case in Physics
and Computer Science. Unpublished materials are generally things that fall
outside the realm of what libraries normally collect, but the information
included in them can be crucial for someone's research.
I would suggest that if you are able to provide your working papers on Internet
it would be useful.
Jeff Kushkowski Internet: Libswain@ucs.indiana.edu
Branch Coordinator Bitnet: Libswain@iubacs.bitnet
Swain Hall Library Voice: (812) 855-2758
Indiana University Fax: (812) 855-6613
>
>Ralph Berg ralph@first.gmd.de
>Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung
>GMD-FIRST
>Ralph Berg phone: +49 30 25499151
>Hardenbergplatz 2 fax: +49 30 25499172
>D-1000 Berlin 12
>Germany
>
>German National Research Center for Computer Science, FIRST
>ralph@first.gmd.de
has provided a list of about 40 techinal report sites for computer science.
From: IN%"LEISERAB@VUCTRVAX.BITNET" 8-JUN-1992 16:18:40.25
I was most interested by your message of a few days ago
posted on PACS-L about ftp'ing working/occasional papers.
As an acquisitions librarian, I am driven crazy on occasion
by working papers. Typically we have to prepay for them,
they don't always come in, they look somewhat like trash to
less experienced library assistants receiving them, etc.
About a year ago I suggested to a couple of our economics-
types here that it would be wonderful to distribute working
papers over the Internet. They seemed to agree, saying the
main problem was finding someone willing to do the work on
the Internet.
So, I very much support your idea. I hope you have had
other enthusiastic responses (though actually I would be
rather surprised if that were the case).
Anna Belle Leiserson
Vanderbilt Law Library
Nashville, TN
Bitnet: leiserab@vuctrvax
Internet: leiserab@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
