We are happy to announce that two new articles by KHK c:o/re postdoctoral researcher Phillip Roth have been published.
In the comment “How libraries classified physics preprints before arXiv and set the stage for distinguishing insiders from outsiders”, published in Nature Reviews Physics, Phillip traces the history of preprint classification in physics and examines how the handling of preprints was invented in a few leading physics libraries.
The article “Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Early Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN”, published in Minerva, deals with the early development of preprint communication in high-energy physics (HEP), specifically with how preprint communication was formalized in the early 1960s at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).