> thanks for the clarification.
> Let us call it 'scientific documents', and each archive specifies clearly,
> what kind and type of documents it serves.
>
> By the way, the 'preprint idea' was born by Enrico Fermi in 1932,
> a famous physicist, who boosted his career by deciding to send copies
> of his documents by mail to all relevant to his work laboratories in the
> world. That was very well received.
Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont, who played a key role in the wide
dissemination of 'preprints' in the field of high energy physics, wrote an
early and interesting paper in 1965 :
Communication Patterns in High-Energy Physics
Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont
February 1965
http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/6/papers/1/
Regards,
Jean-Philippe Schmitt
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