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- An offprint is a separate printing of a work that originally appeared as part of a larger publication, usually one of composite authorship such as an academic journal, magazine, or edited book. Offprints are used by authors to promote their work and ensure a wider dissemination and longer life than might have been achieved through the original publication alone.
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What is an offprint and why was it important in the humanities? This article will approach this question in five steps.
- Carlos Spoerhase
- 2020
- Separate Copies in The Eighteenth Century
- Separate Copies in The Nineteenth Century
- No Longer Just For Private Circulation…
- What About The Proceedings?
- In The Twentieth Century
‘Separate copies’ of papers originated as private arrangements between the author and the printer, with the author paying the cost of additional copies. Surviving copies suggest that this practice was in existence for the Philosophical Transactionsat least as early as 1708 (see comment below from Gregory S. Girolami). Such arrangements continued to...
During the nineteenth century, the numbers of separate copies provided, and the ways in which they could be used, were often discussed. In 1802, there was a contretemps between the president, Joseph Banks, and William Nicholson, the editor of Journal of Natural Philosophy about whether it was legitimate to reprint material from the separate copies ...
Until 1875, all the ‘separate copies’ in existence were for the authors’ private use. But in that year, apparently as a result of a suggestion from Charles Darwin to his friend, Joseph D. Hooker (then President of the Royal Society), a small number were made available for commercial sale by a bookseller. It was hoped this would make the articles in...
Separate copies had initially been provided only for Transactions, but in the 1860s, the question was raised of separate copies for the ‘abstracts’ and short papers that appeared in the Proceedings. In 1871, it was agreed that Proceedings authors would be furnished with 50 copies of a paper, and 25 copies of an abstract, free of charge (RS CMP/4, 1...
It is also clear that the theoretical limit of 100 free and 150 paid-for copies could be breached, despite regular reiterations of the rule in early twentieth-century Council meetings. In 1910, for instance, Frederick Mott was granted permission to purchase 500 additional copies of his Transactionspaper on human trypanosomiasis, so that they could ...
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Offprints were a key part of the publication process before the digital era since digital versions did not exist; a smaller number of them commonly included in the page charges. Since journals are now digital and are also moving away from printing as a whole, reprints are things of the past.
An offprint is a separate printing of a work that originally appeared as part of a larger publication, usually one of composite authorship such as an academic journal, magazine, or edited book. [1][2][3] Offprints are used by authors to promote their work and ensure a wider dissemination and longer life than might have been achieved through the ...
Offprints serve multiple purposes within the academic and scientific community. Firstly, they allow researchers to distribute their findings to their peers and colleagues, enabling them to share the latest advancements in their respective fields.
Jun 25, 2012 · The answer to this question depends on which timeframe you are concerned with, and how optimistic you are about modern technology. Finding copies of old, paywalled papers can be a problem. Nowadays, most papers are freely available on the web or at least in preprint form from the author's sites.
