The Past of the Web –A Personal Perspective
- History linked to High-Energy Physics
- 1991: Paul Ginsparg’sarXivpreprint service (LaTeX)
- 1994: the Year the Web started to make headlines; W3C
- Scientific publishers running scared
- E-Doc: created to bring these publishers on-line
- Worked with Nature, AAAS (Science), American Physical Society,
Springer-Verlag, etc.
- Maintained the “Electronic Journals”section of the WWW Virtual
Library
- E-Doc subsequently sold to CadmusJournal Systems in Baltimore
- Surprise: the world didn’t explode!
- Scientific journals are still here and have embraced electronic
distribution –peer review didn’t go away
- Electronic pre-print services such as arXivstill thrive and are
essential to their communities
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