Understanding Information Retrieval Systems

    15 Version Control

Jill E. Grogg and Jeff Weddle

CONTENTS

Introduction

Scope and History

Version of Record and Open Access

Peer Review

Appropriate Copy and Open URL

Technological Initiatives

Conclusion

References

INTRODUCTION

For library and information science, version control is the activity of identifying and managing iterations of a document for archival and retrieval purposes. While version control can be problematic for documents and information objects of all types and formats, it is especially so for scholarly communication—particularly journal articles—distributed in electronic formats.

In all the many unforeseen challenges that electronic ...