Comments on: academic publishing http://imprompt.us/2007/academic-publishing/ Computer Science and Teaching and Other Ancillary Things Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Daniel Stutzbach http://imprompt.us/2007/academic-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-1034 Daniel Stutzbach Thu, 10 May 2007 13:03:36 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2007/academic-publishing/#comment-1034 I agree that Physics is the front-runner, but Computer Science is still way ahead of the median. Most fields do not even put their work online yet, particularly the humanities. As an example, head over to the <a href="http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/index.php" rel="nofollow">Sociology Department</a> and try to find some of their papers online. The problem with putting URLs in bibliographies is that URLs are fragile. They're very convenient pointers in the short-term, but in the long-term they're useless. Part of the reason we still rely on conference proceedings and journals is because IEEE/ACM/whomever will archive the papers indefinitely. Something like arXiv seems like the way to go. I agree that Physics is the front-runner, but Computer Science is still way ahead of the median. Most fields do not even put their work online yet, particularly the humanities. As an example, head over to the Sociology Department and try to find some of their papers online.

The problem with putting URLs in bibliographies is that URLs are fragile. They’re very convenient pointers in the short-term, but in the long-term they’re useless. Part of the reason we still rely on conference proceedings and journals is because IEEE/ACM/whomever will archive the papers indefinitely. Something like arXiv seems like the way to go.

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