Hi intarchers
URL for this comprehensive, interesting new publication is pasted below.
Comments anyone? I'd love to hear from you. The papers by Harnad and
Hemus, Zinn-Justin and Mastroddi look especially juicy!
Judith
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Judith Winters Tel: +44 1904 433955
Assistant Editor, Internet Archaeology Fax: +44 1904 433939
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Subject: Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community
Following is a press release about the free online version of The Impact of
Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community published recently by
Portland Press. The url for the online version of this book which I hope
will be of interest to you is:
http://tiepac.portlandpress.co.uk/tiepac.htm
Press Release
For Immediate Release
THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ON THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY -- AVAILABLE
ONLINE
The Proceedings of the International Workshop organized by Academia Europaea
and the Wenner-Gren Foundation which took place in April 1997 is now freely
available online*:
http://tiepac.portlandpress.co.uk/tiepac.htm
Information Technology affects all aspects of academic activity, whether in
research, scholarship or education. A major revolution is taking place on
how knowledge is being held and by whom. In the past, the main guardian of
knowledge has been the academic community, with its related institutions of
universities, libraries, learned societies, scholarly publishers, etc. That
responsibility is rapidly being transferred to others, and yet the voice of
academia is hardly being heard in this process.
In The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community experts
from a wide variety of backgrounds discuss the plans for implementing
electronic publishing in their specific subject areas. Topics covered
include:
* The present situation and the likely future
* Legal and political issues
* The content and quality of academic communication
* Social and cultural issues
* Digital libraries and archiving of electronic information
* Access to scientific data repositories
The online version of this book is fully searchable with links from the text
to references and hot links to other web sites and e-mail addresses. There
is a complete list of contributors and participants of the Workshop
including contact details.
Readership - The proceedings of this meeting will be of interest to all
those involved in some aspect of transfer of information including academics
in education and research, learned societies, commercial companies,
publishers and librarians.
* With the exception of two papers where electronic copyright was not given.
Information
* The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community is
available free
on the Portland Press web pages and is also published as a book.
* The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community
Edited by Ian Butterworth, Imperial College, London, UK
Wenner-Gren International Series Volume 73
ISBN 1 85578 122 0 hardback, 200 pages, £75.00/US$127.50
* Portland Press Ltd is the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary
of the Biochemical Society. Further information can be found on the
following URLs:
Portland Press Ltd - http://www.portlandpress.co.uk
Biochemical Society - http://www.biochemsoc.org.uk
* Portland Press Ltd, 59 Portland Place, London W1N 3AJ, UK
Tel: 0171 580 5530, Fax: 0171 323 1136, e-mail:
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Tel: +44 171 580 5530
Fax: +44 171 323 1136
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