Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography
4.2 E-print History

Carriveau, Kenneth L. "A Brief History of and the Opportunities They Open for Science Librarians." Science & Technology Libraries 20, no. 2/3 (2001): 73-82.

Jackson, Allyn. "From Preprints to : The Rise of Electronic Preprint Servers in Mathematics." Notices of the American Mathematical Society 49, no. 1 (2002): 23-31. http://www.ams.org/notices/200201/fea-preprints.pdf

Till, James E. "Predecessors of Preprint Servers." Learned Publishing 14, no. 1 (2001): 7-13. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2001/00000014/00000001/art00002

Tompson, Sara R. "A Tale of Two Worlds: High-Energy Physics Preprints in the 1990s." Science & Technology Libraries 19, no. 2 (2001): 43-51.