Electronic Publishing in Academia

Autor: Malcolm Getz
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: The Serials Librarian. 36:263-300
ISSN: 1541-1095
0361-526X
DOI: 10.1300/j123v36n01_29
Popis: An important consequence of the dramatic decline in the cost of sharing documents is the likelihood of a dramatic increase in the quantity of material available. Everyone who writes may post the whole history of their work on the web at little incremental cost. Availability is then hardly an issue. The challenge to academia is to invest in servics that will turn the ocean of data into sound, useful, compelling information products. The process of filtering, labeling refining, and packaging, that is, the process of editing and publishing, takes resources and will be shaped by the electronic world in significant ways. This essay is concerned with this process
Databáze: OpenAIRE