Organizing a research community with SPIRES: Where repositories, scientists and publishers meet

Issue title: APE 2009, Selected Papers from the International Conference Academic Publishing in Europe: The Impact of Publishing, 20–21 January 2009

Guest editors: Arnoud de KempEditor

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Brooks, Travis C.

Affiliations: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: High Energy Physics (HEP) as a discipline has, for decades, embraced the preprint as a means of communicating results within the community. Community services such as SPIRES and arXiv.org have evolved to serve the needs of this community and enable the preprint communication model to be successful. Currently HEP researchers utilize preprints, not journals as their primary mode of communication, while journals are used to provide quality control via peer-review. SPIRES provided the infrastructure that allows researchers to blend the peer-review of journals with the speed of arXiv. Now a new project, INSPIRE, will provide an even more flexible and extensible system to allow publishers, repositories, and researchers themselves to contribute and share information.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2009-0596

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 29, no. 2-3, pp. 91-96, 2009