From print to electronic: The transformation of scientific communication

✍ Scribed by Afifi, Marianne

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 17 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(19980515)49:7<670::aid-asi9>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

Overall, this is a book of competent scholarship and presen-were increasingly required to ''deposit'' their data in a databank, as part of the manuscript submission, whereas, previously, tation. Its high price and challenging presentation limit its utility as a text. Selected parts, for example the chapter on visualiza-such published research did not include data. Thus, the data, now scrutinized much more closely, assumed a different role tion, would make good supplemental readings for many courses. As a reference work to support teaching, this book should be in the publication process and became part of the scientific ''common good.'' high on the acquisition list for any library that supports a computer science curriculum.

Hurd describes the profound communication changes in the area of high energy physics. Currency of dissemination of discoveries via informal communication channels in the form of preprints are most important in this area of physics. Paul Gin-