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Working Paper Summary 4/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DEGRAY%SJC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu)
Tue Jun 30 12:01:12 1992
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1992 10:51:31 CDT
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Working Paper Summary PART 4.
From: IN%"akel@seq1.loc.gov" 12-JUN-1992 14:37:00.83
I have just gotten back from SLA where I gave a talk on working
papers and other forms of "grey literature" and I suggested that
we will probably see a lot of this kind of publication being
offered or distributed via the Internet.
So your query is of great interest to me, and I would deeply
appreciate it if you could let me know what kind of responses
you get to it.
In response to your question, I don't know of any concerted efforts
to use the Internet to make working papers available, although I
am aware of the DARPA-coordinated project through which five or so
academic computer science departments are sharing their technical
reports on the Internet. This project has raised some interesting
issues regarding who should create bibliographic records (if at all)
and what form they should take, etc.
As for the idea itself, I (personally) think it's a great one, and
I would be interested in knowing if, when, and how you might get
it off the ground.
Anna Keller
Science and Technology Information Initiative
LM 611
Library of Congress 20540
202-707-1966
From: IN%"JMARME@IUBACS.BITNET" "SYSTEMS COORDINATOR ... 855-1958" 4-JUN-199
2 14:35:26.97
Greetings:
I applaud the idea of making working papers available through a CWIS or an
FTP site. Our campus, like many others, has a directive from the university
president to reduce the amount of paper used through more creative use of
etexts or ejournals. The stocking of physical copies of working papers has
always had its problems (for example, the contact person for obtaining a
copy is often difficult to find), and electronic access would better serve
the goals of scholarly communication and openness. I am certain that some
copies would still be printed as "memorial" copies to pass out to colleagues,
but the two problemsof printing too many or too few would be avoided.
I should add that one approach that you might try in selling this idea is
that it gives department and research centers much greater visibility
within the university at no extra effort.
Jay Marme'
Systems Coordinator
Business/SPEA Library
Indiana University-Bloomington
