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A debate on preprint exchange

JUN 01, 1966
Michael Moravcsik
Simon Pasternack

How best to communicate scientific research results and ideas is subject to strong differences of opinion among physicists. Particularly at issue is a proposal to systematically reproduce and circulate preliminary research reports and other similar documents.

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Michael Moravcsik, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore.

Simon Pasternack, The Physical Review, American Physical Society.

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Volume 19, Number 6

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