RE: Princeton/Stanford Working Papers Announcement

["Margaret Landesman" <margaret.landesman@library.utah.edu>]

Perhaps the purpose is to enable scholarly communication - to let scholars 
communicate with each other and maybe talk back and forth about the work 
they are doing.

That was sort of the idea in the first place.

What's less clear to me in a field of this sort is whether this community 
really needs formally published journals. Why not keep the pre-print 
archives and dispense with the journals?

Margaret Landesman
Utah


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Subject:	Re: Princeton/Stanford Working Papers Announcement

With respect to below: what are the patterns in humanities fields 
regarding whether journal publishers will accept items if they have been 
previously published as working papers or "preprints"? Is the purpose for 
the resource below to enable authors to solicit comments prior to their 
submitting articles to a journal? Just curious. Brian Simboli

James J. O'Donnell wrote:

>From: Josiah Ober [mailto:jober@Princeton.EDU]
>
>Dear Colleague:
>
>The Princeton and Stanford Departments of Classics are pleased to
>announce the inauguration of a new on-line resource:
>
>The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics:
>http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc
>
>The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics is a collaborative 
>project of the Classics Department of Princeton University and the 
>Classics Department of Stanford University. Its purpose is to make the 
>results of current research undertaken by members of Princeton and 
>Stanford Universities in the field of classics available in advance of 
>final publication. Papers are offered in .pdf format and are 
>downloadable. Copyright is held by the author.
>
>Currently 28 papers are available in the fields of Greek, Roman, 
>Mediterranean, and comparative history; Greek and Latin literature; 
>archaeology; and historical linguistics. We anticipate regularly posting 
>new papers in these fields and in the fields of ancient science, ancient 
>religions, classical philosophy, and ancient/modern studies.
>
>Each working paper includes the author's email address. Comments on 
>papers should be sent directly to their authors.
>
>Comments on the Working Papers site may be sent to the site's faculty 
>coordinators:  Josiah Ober (jober@princeton.edu) and Walter Scheidel 
>(scheidel@stanford.edu).
>
>###