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Publication Bibliography as Anthropometry: Dreaming Scientific Order at the fin de siècle(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) Csiszar, AlexThe 1890s saw an explosion of ambitious projects to build a massive classification of knowledge that would serve as a basis for universal catalogues of scientific publishing. The largest of these were the rival International Catalogue of Scientific Literature (London) and Répertoire Bibliographique Universel (Brussels). This essay argues that one widely influential but overlooked source of the enthusiasm for classification as a technology of search and retrieval during this period was the emergence of new methods and technologies for classifying and keeping track of people, and in particular, the criminal identification laboratory of Alphonse Bertillon located in Paris.Publication Seriality and the Search for Order: Scientific Print and its Problems During the Late Nineteenth Century(Science History Publications Ltd., 2010) Csiszar, AlexPublication Proceedings and the Public: How a Commercial Genre Transformed Science(University of Chicago Press, 2020) Csiszar, AlexHow did learned societies come to be closely associated with journal publishing and what were the consequences of this development? This chapter locates this shift in the emergence of “Proceedings” publications in the 1820s. Proceedings journals began as excerpts from commercial journals such as the Philosophical Magazine and they were initially seen as a form of broader public outreach. Gradually, however, societies sought to tame these new journals by establishing formal routines by which to decide what to publish, by setting up generic expectations regarding originality and style, and by encouraging the notion that certain journals were the only legitimate venues for original scientific claims. This was a structural transformation in the politics of knowledge that had far-reaching consequences for the basis of claims to scientific expertise. Following proceedings publications from their origins in attempts to diffuse science to their transformation into a preeminent form for specialized publishing shows that the rise of popular genres for communicating science has been important not simply because it allowed new social groups to participate in knowledge. These genres have sometimes been incorporated into elite science itself, reshaping elite institutions in the image of publics that they have sometimes sought to exclude.