Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 419.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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[1] From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU (4)
Subject: Re: 14.0411 self-archiving and online publishing
[2] From: "John R. Porter" <porterj@duke.usask.ca> (115)
Subject: [STOA] on-line publications
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:02:27 +0100
From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: 14.0411 self-archiving and online publishing
One model worth looking at (if your library subscribes to it), is the Web
of Science, in which footnotes in one article go directly to the relevant
passage in another article.
Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
(510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:04:10 +0100
From: "John R. Porter" <porterj@duke.usask.ca>
Subject: [STOA] on-line publications
[The following forwarded from the STOA list with thanks. --WM]
The UofS libraries organized a conference on the Future of Scholarly
Communication a week or so ago, with some interesting presentations (esp.
one on the Los Alamos Electronic Preprint Archive, which hasn't supplanted
traditional print publication among the physicists but has certainly
altered its significance in a radical way). There is a www site, with some
links, at:
http://library.usask.ca/fosc/
As an addendum to the conference I was sent the following, which also
might be of interest:
----- Original Message -----
From: Alison Buckholtz
To: Multiple recipients of list
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:43 PM
For Immediate Release
October 24, 2000
For more information, contact:
Alison Buckholtz, 202-296-2296 x115
or alison@arl.org
SPARC SUPPORTS PROJECT EUCLID:
MATH PUBLISHING INITIATIVE FROM CORNELL AND DUKE
Open Archives-Compliant Repository Provides Cost-Effective Option for
Independent Digital Publishing, Expanded Dissemination
Washington, DC - SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coalition) today announced its partnership with Project Euclid, a
groundbreaking initiative led by the Cornell University Library and Duke
University Press to advance effective and affordable scholarly
communication in mathematics and statistics.
Project Euclid, which is being developed with funding from The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, provides an infrastructure for independent journals in
theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics to publish on the Web
using a shared infrastructure. The Euclid site will support the entire
span of scholarly publishing from preprints to the distribution of
published journals. It will also provide journal editors with a toolkit to
streamline their editorial and peer review processes and publish in a
timely and cost-effective manner.
SPARC, an alliance of libraries that supports economical alternatives to
high-priced journals, will aid Project Euclid by providing library
marketing support and introducing journals and editorial boards to
Euclid's capabilities.
"Math is a field with a vibrant independent publishing tradition," said
Sarah Thomas, University Librarian at Cornell University. "Some 60 percent
of the core journals in the discipline are still published by small
publishers such as university math departments at reasonable prices. But
these could be an endangered species with the growing importance of the
Web and of the market dominance of huge commercial aggregations of
journals. We expect Project Euclid will help level the playing field and
offer independent journals a way forward."
"Scholars and their intellectual communities around the world and in every
discipline need forward-looking communications models that exploit the
potential of the Web," said Steve Cohn, director of the Duke University
Press. "By providing journals in mathematics and statistics with a
standardized but highly flexible publishing tool kit, we believe we can
help keep their costs low, implement efficient editorial processes, and
enhance searching and linking capabilities. We are also intent on proving
that university presses, libraries, and disciplinary communities can work
together to innovate in the service of scholarship."
"Libraries will benefit from the viability of community-based,
economically priced, high-impact independent journals," said Rick Johnson,
SPARC Enterprise Director. "Project Euclid not only provides a way for
journals to make the transition to the Web, it also offers a means for
them to reach a vastly expanded readership with a high-quality offering."
The Euclid editorial toolkit, with password-protected areas that
streamline the peer review and editorial process for editors and
reviewers, will enable editors to pick and choose different tools to meet
their particular needs. They can maintain a database of their reviewers,
post papers to a reviewer's password-protected pick-up and drop-off space,
and easily alert reviewers via e-mail regarding review deadlines.
Reviewers can submit their comments and/or the edited papers
confidentially. Editors can link the revised version of a paper to its
preprint version, if applicable.
After preparing articles with the Euclid editorial tools, editors will
upload the articles that make up a journal issue to the Euclid site.
Journal publishers and authors will benefit from the exposure gained
through a large aggregated site, and their users will benefit from
advanced user features that many individual publishers would be unable to
provide on their own. Individual journals will each have distinct "front
doors" into the system, which they can publicize to their subscribers, and
journals will retain their URLs.
Euclid will be interoperable as part of the Open Archives Initiative,
allowing articles in the preprint server to be accessed through searches
that reach across widely dispersed digital repositories.
###
Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the
field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. The end
result will be the creation of a vibrant online information community that
is based on a healthy balance of commercial enterprises, scholarly
societies, and independent publishers. Project Euclid is created around
the core value that electronic publication of research should be
affordable for most academic institutions, who are its main producers and
users.
SPARC is an alliance of universities and research libraries that supports
increased competition in scientific journal publishing. Its membership
currently numbers approximately 200 institutions and library consortia in
North America, the U.K., continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and
Asia. SPARC is also affiliated with major library organizations in Canada,
the U.K. and Ireland, Denmark, Australia and the USA. More information on
SPARC is available at www.arl.org/sparc. SPARC is an initiative of the
Association of Research Libraries.
For further information:
.. Project Euclid: http://euclid.library.cornell.edu/project/index.html
.. SPARC: http://www.arl.org/sparc
.. Open Archives Initiative: http://www.openarchives.org
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John Porter
University of Saskatchewan
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