A debate on preprint exchange—Pro: Physics Information Exchange

THE PHYSICS INFORMATION EXCHANGE (PIE) is a program, currently under active discussion, that aims at improving communications within high‐energy theoretical physics. The program was proposed in September 1965 by Charles Gottschalk of the technical information division of the US Atomic Energy Commission, and I like to believe that an article of mine in PHYSICS TODAY (“Private and Public Communications in Physics,” March 1965) might have in part stimulated the proposal. The idea is by no means new, however; it has been tossed around among active researchers in high‐energy physics for many years.

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