As Experts Call for a Chemistry Preprint Server, Elsevier Unveils Its Own

Chemists should start their own Web server to post research papers before their publication in print journals, experts said late last month at a meeting of the American Chemical Society.

"Conventional wisdom says that e-prints are not compatible with the culture of chemistry," said Ann Wolpert, a librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But she and three other panelists urged the society to try out this form of publishing, which they described as more efficient,

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