Beams of Particles and Papers.  The Role of Preprint Archives in High Energy Physics.

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-06

Summary:

"Abstract:  In high energy physics scholarly papers circulate primarily through online preprint archives based on a centralized repository, arXiv.org, that physicists simply refer to as “the archive.” This is not a tool for preservation and memory, but rather a space of flows where written objects are detected and then disappear, and their authors made available for scrutiny. In this work I analyse the reading and publishing practices of  two   subsets  of  particle  physicists,  theorists   and   experimentalists.   In  order   to   be recognized as legitimate and productive members of their community, physicists need to abide by the temporalities and authorial practices structured by the archive. Theorists live in a state of accelerated time that shapes their reading and publishing practices around   a   24   hour   cycle.   Experimentalists   resolve   to   tactics   that   allow   them   to circumvent the slowed­down time and invisibility they experience as members of large collaborations. As digital archives for the exchange of preprint articles emerge in other scientific   fields,   physics   could   help   shed   light   on   general   transformations   of contemporary scholarly communication systems.

Link:

http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1602.08539.pdf

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Tags:

oa.new oa.preprints oa.green oa.physics oa.repositories oa.versions

Date tagged:

03/06/2016, 09:57

Date published:

03/06/2016, 04:57