In a genuine spirit of enquiry (I hold no brief for Blackwells), I ask M.
Beddow and other subscribers to this list if they would subscribe to, or
submit their best work to, or cite in c.v. and R.A.E. submission, a purely
electronic journal.
Do you think your departmental colleagues would agree to replace a library
subscription to 'German Life and Letters' with a subscription at, say,
one-quarter the price to a new electronic journal in the same field?
Alec McAulay
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> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:32:33 +0100
> From: Michael Beddow <[log in to unmask]>
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> on 13/7/01 11:01 pm, [Hamish Ritchie] at [Ashdell] wrote:
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> > German Life & Letters is available in electronic form to subscribers.
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> >Hamish ritchie
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> We all know that. It's not the point. In fact, it misses the point
> altogether.
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> The issue is not whether an electronic version is available to those who
> subscribe to the print edition, but whether the cost to institutional
> subscribers could be made less crippling if the print production costs
> didn't have to be borne and the true economics of electronic publication
> were honestly revealed.
>
> The GLL's current electronic publication effort is tagged on to the
> print operation, so the true costs of that operation are hidden, from
> the editorial board as much as from anyone else. It's a similar
> situation (although the mechanics are different) with MLR.
>
> Michael
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