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Physics preprint archive

• Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:53:18 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Physics preprint archive
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Forwarded to STHC-L from ARCHIVES.  -- Russell Johnson

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:48:13 -0800
From: Jill L Schneider <jschnidr@USGS.GOV>
Subject: Physics preprint archive
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I don't recall seeing this....

There is an article in SCIENCE magazine (v.293, #5529, 20 July 2001) about
physicist Paul Ginsparg at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who started the
Los Alamos Electronic Preprint Archive (LAEPA) 10 years ago as a vehicle
for scientists in the physics world to share their not-yet-published
papers.  It has been a wildly successful venture, accessioning more than
2,500 papers a month this year.  Ginsparg has now opted to take a tenured
position at Cornell University and will take the preprint archive with him.

There is another article on the Cornell web site about the archive & the
move:    

http://www.cornell.edu

& click on link.

The Archive itself can be viewed at:

http://www.arXiv.org


Jill L Schneider
USGS - Alaska Technical Data Unit
907-786-7457
jschnidr@usgs.gov
http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/alaska.html

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