This is a website for Preprint Culture. The History and Sociology of a Communication Format in Late-Modern Science, a book project by Phillip H. Roth based at the Käte Hamburger Center: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University.

Preprint Culture is a book project that employs media studies and book history to chronicle the evolution of preprints from an informal communication practice started by physicists after World War II into a full-fledged scientific information genre. The book will study different regimes, imagined and designed by librarians and scientists at centers for particle physics research in Europe and the USA, for handling and circulating preprints in various physical and electronic formats, and ask about the various technologies, concepts, protocols, and underlying infrastructures that enabled the material encoding, transmission, and storing of scientific information.