Special print
Reprints or Separata , the individual prints of a magazine article or a document in a collection plant . They serve the author as a specimen copy and for sending to interested colleagues. Offprints were common with many publishers well into the 21st century. Today they have largely been replaced by electronic versions of the contributions. They usually correspond to the actual publication in terms of layout and page numbering, but in the early 20th century it was sometimes customary to provide them with a separate page numbering.
Many specialist journals made a certain number of offprints (around 20–50) available to authors free of charge; some well-known periodicals charged a fee for this , for example if the images were not to be printed in black and white but in color.
In contrast to the separatum, the preprint of an individual article is called a preprint ; this term is also used for reproductions of the layout manuscript. In digital form ( electronic publication ) one speaks of eprints - or postprints if they include the published text.
Reprints count as so-called " dependent literature ". In contrast to the individual journal or conference volumes , they are usually not cataloged by the libraries , but can only be researched using databases and, if necessary, bibliographies . Nevertheless, many offprints are cataloged by various initiatives by special libraries, for example in the association of legal libraries and universities. Likewise, in academic libraries with historical print stocks, all existing prints and thus also historical offprints in the inventory are cataloged. With the increase in electronic publications, the distinction between independent and non-independent literature has lost importance.
See also
literature
- Heinz Schlaffer : About the spirit of the humanities. Academic glosses. In: Jürgen Wertheimer , Peter V. Zima (Hrsg.): Strategies of dumbing down. Infantilization in the fun society. 2nd Edition. C. H. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-45963-3 , pp. 92-109, here pp. 100-101: under special printing .
- Reprints. In: Helmut Hiller, Stephan Füssel : Dictionary of the book. Seventh, fundamentally revised edition. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-465-03495-3 , p. 306.
- Carlos Spoerhase : Scholarly trespassing in notebook format. The strange genre of the reprint: What the collections of the German Literature Archive in Marbach reveal about the forms of communication in the humanities. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 8, 2016, No. 131, p. N 3.
Individual evidence
- ^ Cataloged offprints in the holdings of the Berlin State Library. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
