A usage based analysis of CoRR

Carr, L., Hitchcock, S., Hall, W. and Harnad, S. (2000) A usage based analysis of CoRR. ACM SIGDOC Journal of Computer Documentation, 24 (2). pp. 54-59.

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Abstract

Based on an empirical analysis of author usage of CoRR, and of its predecessor in the Los Alamos eprint archives, it is
shown that CoRR has not yet been able to match the early growth of the Los Alamos physics archives. Some of the reasons
are implicit in Halpern's paper, and we explore them further here. In particular we refer to the need to promote CoRR more
effectively for its intended community - computer scientists in universities, industrial research labs and in government. We
take up some points of detail on this new world of open archiving concerning central versus distributed self-archiving,
publication, the restructuring of the journal publishers' niche, peer review and copyright.

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Article

Creator/Authors:

	Les Carr
	Steve Hitchcock
	Wendy Hall
	Stevan Harnad

Additional Information:

Invited Commentary on "CoRR: a Computing Research Repository" by Joseph Y. Halpern <P>An updated version of this paper is maintained at <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/comment/JCD-commentary.html">http://opcit.eprints.org/comment/JCD-commentary.html</a>

Research Group:

Old ECS Groups > Science and Engineering of Natural Systems
Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science
Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia

Date:

May 2000

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