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)
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…?