Back when the World was young scholars used to send and receive reprint requests 'please send me your interesting paper on ...' It was pleasing to get a request- somebody had read and appreciated your work. With the arrival of email and the internet all that has passed; no more do we see those specially designed cards.. I wonder if there is any reason to keep a pile of old cards? do these have philatelic interest? might they end up in some museum of scientific communication?
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ReplyDeleteI was looking for images of reprint request cards (thanks for posting!) and came across a couple of abstracts you might be interested in:
ReplyDelete"Reprint requests - how and why they were made "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2910041
and "Responses to reprint requests ..."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627045/