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electronic-only publication at Astronomy and Astrophysics
For a while back in the 1990s, A&A published some things (such as
appendices to papers) ONLY electronically. However, ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr doesn't seem to exist anymore, and http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html doesn't work (many links return "not found" etc). For example, take http://aa.springer.de/papers/7318003/2300680/small.htm where one can read: * All three appendices are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/A+A/ (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html However, a reader cannot access the appendices via these links. How can one access them? In this case, I am author of the paper, so have the appendices, and they are also at arXiv. However, I think that a reader should be able to access the content of a paper published by A&A at the official site. |
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electronic-only publication at Astronomy and Astrophysics
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"Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)" writes: For example, take http://aa.springer.de/papers/7318003/2300680/small.htm where one can read: * All three appendices are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/A+A/ (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html .... How can one access them? Are they at http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/318/680 ? I found that link through ADS, but there was no link to the paper at the A&A web site. And as you say, at the A&A web site, the appendices aren't included in either the HTML or PDF versions of the paper. That's just bizarre. I thought the point of online publication is that lengthy extra material is easy to include. -- Help keep our newsgroup healthy; please don't feed the trolls. Steve Willner Phone 617-495-7123 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA |
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electronic-only publication at Astronomy and Astrophysics
In article , Steve Willner
writes: In article , "Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)" writes: For example, take http://aa.springer.de/papers/7318003/2300680/small.htm where one can read: * All three appendices are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/A+A/ (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html .... How can one access them? Are they at http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/318/680 ? Yes. One can get their eventually from the "online data" link at ADS, though this is not really online data. I found that link through ADS, but there was no link to the paper at the A&A web site. And as you say, at the A&A web site, the appendices aren't included in either the HTML or PDF versions of the paper. Right. That's just bizarre. I thought the point of online publication is that lengthy extra material is easy to include. In this particular case, one can debate whether a few more pages is "lengthy extra material". This was back when A&A decided to publish some stuff "only electronically", with only the "core version" in the paper journal. Back then, I don't think that there was an online version of the journal. After much protest from the community, A&A had to backtrack. Unfortunately, this paper is one which was accepted while this policy was in place. (The arXiv version is the full paper, though.) Today, many journals are online only (maybe A&A as well?). Back then, they decided to publish some stuff as online only back when many people didn't even have a graphics-capable screen at work, so any money saved by avoiding an increase in subscription cost would be lost paying for paper and ink when people print the stuff out. Also, libraries which wanted a complete set would have to print the electronic-only stuff out and bind it. So, what the online version of this paper has is essentially (probably automatically) converted from the PAPER version, including the "All three appendices...". |
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