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If you have or expect to have a large reprint collection, no simple filing system will provide efficient retrievability. Records must be established. The records (probably on 3 5 cards) can be kept in a number of ways. Cards may be established in brief form for authors and co-authors and for any number of subject entries. All cards are maintained in one dictionary catalog (shoebox?). The reprints themselves might be filed by accession number, with that number being recorded on all relevant author and subject cards. Such record keeping is relatively easy and surprisingly efficient.
Alternatively, you can record your reprints in a computer file. Various software programs are available for this kind of record management.
What to Collect
What reprints should you collect? Let us get to the heart of the matter, or at least the aorta. Unless you are really a collector by personality, you should limit your collection to those items that are convenient. Because you cannot collect everything, the best rule is to collect the difficult. You should not collect reprints of papers published in journals that you own, and you probably should not collect reprints from journals that are readily available in almost all libraries. You should collect reprints of papers published in the small, especially foreign, journals or in conference proceedings or other offbeat publications. And you should collect reprints of papers containing high-quality or color illustrations, because they cannot be satisfactorily photocopied. Thus, measured in terms of convenience, your reprint collection need not supplant the library down the hall, but it is a convenience to have access in your own files to material that is not available in the library. Besides, the reprints are yours; you can mark them up, cut them up, and file them in any way that you find useful. 

 



How To Write & Publish a Scientific Paper
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
ISBN: 0313330409
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1998
Pages: 46

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