Re: Citation-Linking

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:01:23 +0100

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Professor L.W. Hurtado wrote:

> This is especially directed to Stevan Harnad re: his proposal that
> authors of refereed journal articles should self-archive their final-
> form articles and thus make them accessible on the Web. It is a
> small but practical question:
> At least in the Humanities disiciplines, journal articles can be of
> significant length (perhaps longer than most "hard" science
> articles), often 15-30pp or even more. Now a full citation
> requirement = author, article title, journal, vol., year, and pp. of the
> article and the specific p. of the portion being cited/quoted. In
> paper form articles have such page numbers. Would/do self-
> archived articles have the vol. & page numbers borne by the
> articles in the paper-print journal? I assume so.

Yes of course -- as long as they last. Once journals are online-only,
only paragraph numbers will be relevant.

> If not (e.g., if what
> is archived is a pre-print form), then someone citing the Web
> version would have no fixed citation point (rather like not having
> standardized latitude-longitude for giving location). Now in "pure"
> (i.e., e-form only/original) electronic publication, as we know,
> various e-form markers are put in (e.g., numbered paragraphs, or
> even page numbers of the Web formatted version). But when an
> essay appears also in paper-form, won't it be important for any
> citation to enable a researcher to find and verify the citation
> quickly, and isn't the ideal to have some citation format that allows
> the researcher to verify either/both the paper-form and the e-form?
> (This is obviously a simple request for information/suggestion and
> not offered as an antagonistic question.) Larry Hurtado

Vide supra.

In the transition, there will be self-archived versions that are not
page images (because images are nonoptimal and non-searchable, and
because in some cases they, or PDF, may be proprietary). In such cases
the self-archived non-paginated version will do just as well, can
be checked, where needed, against the "authentic version," and will
become the eventual standard anyway.

There are no substantive issues here.


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