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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:41:51 -0700
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- From: Suzanne Sweeney <SSWEENEY@GSB-PESO.STANFORD.EDU>
- Subject: Working papers in Business
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- I think that the idea of a working paper clearinghouse is
- good and it would be preferable to have these papers
- available in an electronic version rather than on
- microfiche. Microfiche is more suited to archival
- situations rather than sharing new research.
-
- The Jackson Library (Graduate School of Business, Stanford
- University) already collects around 120 institutions'
- working papers. We provide minimal bibliographic control by
- simply listing working papers available by institution. We
- provide full cataloging to our own school's working papers
- and we have been considering making these available in
- electronic form. The Stanford Business School also sells
- its working papers for a minimal fee (usually under $5).
-
- Some of the problems we've encounter in making our own
- school's research papers available electronically revolve
- around "ownership" issues (copyright), the extensive
- mathematical equations that don't translate well to plain
- ASCII text, and storage needs. We've also considered a
- database of just the abstracts of working papers, and that
- seem very feasible. We are also planning to distribute (to
- our faculty and perhaps by subscription) an irregular
- listing of our new papers and their abstracts. Perhaps an
- electronic journal of abstracts from Working papers in
- Business would fly???
-
- It seems that we could look to the model of the Computer
- Science working papers (?) at Yale (?). If participating
- institutions made their own papers available for FTP, the
- clearinghouse would only need to provide location of the
- paper for retrieval. I believe they leave the papers in the
- original format (TeX, PostScript, etc.).
-
- Suzanne Sweeney
- Jackson Library
- Graduate School of Business
- Stanford University
- ssweeney@gsb-peso.stanford.edu
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