• DOI:10.1087/09531510125100313
• Corpus ID: 221957508

Piracy

@article{Owen2001Piracy,
  title={Piracy},
  author={Lynette Owen},
  journal={Learned Publishing},
  year={2001},
  volume={14}
}

• Lynette Owen
• Published 1 January 2001
• Computer Science
• Learned Publishing

searchable gateway to preprint servers all across the world which deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to the DOE. With a single query, users can search one or a collection of existing preprint servers. The Network pulses the search engines of such servers, compiles the results, and returns them to the users (see http://www.osti.gov/preprint). With the addition of preprints to OSTI’s suite of web products and services, the trilogy of ways in which researchers make their results known are now accessible on the web: grey literature through the DOE Information Bridge; journal literature through PubSCIENCE; and preprints through the PrePRINT Network. Interestingly, a visionary recommendation was made in a 1991 report commissioned by the American Physical Society. Called the ‘Loken Report’, it called for the development of a National Physics Database to integrate ‘all of the world’s scientific literature information in an electronic information system’. Given the developments just described, that vision no longer seems such a stretch. Indeed, Loken Report author Dr Harry Thacker recently said, ‘I’ve often thought that the only thing we got wrong in the report was the time scale. We thought we were talking about 2020 and it turned out to be more like 2000.’ The DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information agrees that the time is near for a digital national resource for energy science and technology information. The cutting-edge products that OSTI has developed make an ideal foundation for such a resource. The remaining uncertainties are who will launch it, and how soon that will happen.