Douglas,
Have you seen the Introduction page for the ACLS (American Council
of Learned Societies) History E-Book Project entitled 'The New Monograph:
A Digital Portal'?
http://www.historyebook.org/intro2.html
Is this they are proposing that e-only books be used for scholarly
monograph publishing in the future. Their current collection is mainly
traditional e-books.
It is not unusual for latecomers to a new technology (scientists were
first to exploit e-publishing) to step over the hybrid or intermediate
stage and go straight to the pure form.
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent, UK.
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Brown, Douglas wrote:
> John,
> ...raising the question of digital preservation.
> I was interested in the view that humanists are now moving away from the
> trad monograph for publishing their research, and would like to hear
> more about the 'lunacy of academic publishing'.
> Douglas
>
>
> Douglas Brown
> Editor, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
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> Chloe,
>
> The death of print on paper was predicted when I was an MSc student in
> 1979 (well it was by me :-) ) but my office is still overflowing with
> paper - they keep bringing it in when I'm not looking.
>
> However it is also true I rarely print out e-mails or web pages, and I
> confidently predict we all have more megabytes of professionally
> interesting information stored on disc (magnetic and optical) than we do
> on paper.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith,
> The Templeman Library,
> University of Kent, UK.
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Stewart, Chloe wrote:
>
> > The death of the book was being confidently predicted when I was a
> > Master's student in 1996. Oddly I still have the problem of bursting
> > library shelves and insatiable demand for print books even in so
> > 'electronic' a field as medicine. My local Borders bookshop is packed
>
> > every time I enter, and my home is awash with books, most of which
> > belong to my partner, an academic in Classics who is also an
> insatiable online user (including for buying books).
> >
> > And the paperless office? I wish.
> >
> > Chloe Stewart
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