Preprint Culture

Preprint Libraries and the History of Information Infrastructure in Physics

How libraries acted as information centers and structured communication in physics.

Analog and digital library catalogs at CERN
Card and computer library catalogs at the CERN library 1983 (c) CERN.
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  • What is Preprint Culture?

    Preprint Culture is a book project that employs media studies and book history to examine how science came to speak and traffic in preprints. The goal is to deliver a compelling media history that can help make sense of the current status of preprints in science as well as shed light on how processes of digitization have impacted scientific…

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