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In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] wrote: > Susan Osborne wrote: > > > Some of our scientists have started to download and store articles > > from electronic journals. As their collection of stored PDF files > > increases they have commented upon the large amount of disk space > > required. They also wonder if there is any way of indexing the data > > that they have stored. > > I'm afraid I have no advice to offer Susan. But as a quick (possibly > dumb) comment to the elib list, two things come to mind. > > PDF, from our perspective, is "under review" as a document format. > we may yet adopt it, or something like it. However, we do keep > noticing that readers find its problems more readily than its > advantages. On the question of PDF vs other formats, you may be entertained by: http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/articles/gdn-html.htm Mike Holderness http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%