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forsdyke schrieb in Nachricht <3714AEAD.5F39 at post.queensu.ca>...
>Electronic publication to the biological sciences is an idea whose
>time has come. But what steps are being taken to ensure that material,
>once deposited, is not interfered with. Who guards the guards? Who
>guards Paul Ginsparg who runs a service for the physics community?
>> I would love, for example, to publish an article discovering the
>structure of DNA which I would date 1952, the year
>before Watson and Cricks' famous paper.
>> The only way to cover this point would seem to be to have
>simultaneous deposition in multiple sites (>2), and have a search engine
>of some kind constantly monitoring the sites to ensure that all copies
>remain identical. This would be something like GenBank,where depositions
>of DNA sequences are made simultaneously in the USA, Europe and Japan.
>> There is also the question of how to cite this
>information. Rather than some abstract number, why not follow the
>pattern of joural citations. e.g. Harnad, S. Cogprints 1999, 4:10-1610.
>In this case the "volume" number (4) would be the month and the "page"
>numbers would be the day and hour-min (preferably corrected to GMT).
>Thus the citation would contain an implicit time-stamp.
>>Sincerely, Donald Forsdyke. Discussion Leader. Bionet.journals.note
>>http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/mind.htm
