On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, JQ Johnson wrote:
> I think my point in Chemistry was that the discipline believed that they > did in fact have a concern that trumped "maximizing their research > impact". They had to withold publication (including witholding > preprints) until AFTER the patent application was filed. They believe > that they have found a reasonable compromise that fosters maximized > research impact within the constraints of that system, but it is one > that does not permit a preprint culture. Without a preprint culture, > it's much harder to establish eprints or institutional repository, even > though these are logically separable. One question in Chemistry is > whether we can find alternative sells (giving up on eprints). For > example, we might focus on post-peer-publication deposit of raw data. > > A similar concern is those disciplines where the intellectual product is > more like art than science (fine arts, music, dance, etc.). Again, no > preprint culture, and hence (perhaps) little interest in institutional > repositories. On the other hand, in some cases they do have a portfolio > culture. In these and English, the sell will be, I think, the new > functionality provided by making available AFTER the fact a history of > the intellectual product -- we'll encourage authors to save the drafts > of their books or paintings in our repository, and release them as a set > after the final product is available. Or we'll focus on archival of > instructional materials. > > Back to preprints, though, can we identify other disciplines that do > have histories of preprints or tech reports? Some areas of psychology, > obviously. [aside: do you have data from Psyprints on which areas of > psychology have been fastest to adopt eprints?] Maybe some areas of > biology. I don't know enough about the grey literature in most > engineering disciplines (since my university doesn't have an engineering > school). Do you know of any systematic studies of the grey literature > in academia? > > JQ Johnson Office: 115F Knight Library > Academic Education Coordinator e-mail: j...@darkwing.uoregon.edu > 1299 University of Oregon 1-541-346-1746 (v); -3485 (fax) > Eugene, OR 97403-1299 http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj >
