How libraries created the first open communication infrastructure in science
– and disappeared in the process.
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Tuesdays 10 o’clock at the CERN library
Tuesdays 10 o’clock was an important time for physicists working at CERN. Every week at that time, starting in the early 1960s, a ritual would play out that also structured much of the local research community’s habits of acquiring new information of what was happening in high-energy physics and related fields. As one informant who
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DESY and the High-Energy Physics Index
From May 21 to 23, 2024, I was a guest at the “Deutsches Elektron-Synchronton” (DESY), Germany’s national accelerator center located in the North-East of Hamburg. It was established in 1959 and has contributed substantially to particle physics research over the decades. What is less known is that the library at DESY began publishing a bi-weekly
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What is Preprint Culture?
Preprint Culture is a book project that employs media studies and book history to examine how science came to speak and traffic in preprints. The goal is to deliver a compelling media history that can help make sense of the current status of preprints in science as well as shed light on how processes of digitization have impacted scientific
Preprint Culture 