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Social Sciences E-Prints Come of Age: The California Digial Library's Working Paper Repository
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The growth and potential of digital scientific working papers, particularly as pioneered by the Los Alamos arXiv e-print project, poses challenges to the accepted tenets of scholarly publishing. Physical sciences developers set the stage for Web-based repositories, easing access and giving digital publishing a big boost. But what about the social sciences, which also publish working papers? Social sciences, the perennial poor cousins as measured by available funds, have since followed the physical sciences' lead in developing digital repositories and in fact have benefited from the debugging and experience that came before. Now, as with so many other trends in Web-based information, …
