2002 Midwinter Forum - Scientist Role (SPARC)

The Role of the Scientist in Academic Publishing
Some (Highly Biased) Opinions
SPARC Forum, ALA Midwinter, January 2002

by David Cohn
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Carnegie Mellon University
DigitalMC Corp.

Table of Contents

The Role of the Scientist in Academic Publishing: Some (highly biased) opinions by David Cohn, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Carnegie Mellon University, DigitalMC Corp.

Outline

What do scientists want?

How do journals fit in to this?

How has this changed?

One of the problems with electronic publication

A tale of two disciplines: Astrophysics and Machine Learning

Astro-ph - e-Print server

Astro-ph - e-Print server

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Aug 1993

Machine Learning community follows suit

The future of electronic journals

Net Archives vs. e-Journals

One vision of the future: the personal journal

The rough road ahead

The sound bite

Some (online) references

PPT Slide

updated: February 9, 2002

2002 Midwinter Forum - Scientist Role

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