A few words about TELOS, THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE.
The establishment of TELOS (telos is Greek for "turning point") is part of a long term commitment by Springer-Verlag New York to further develop its publishing activities and expertise in the rapidly growing arena of the new electronic media. Springer envisions the TELOS imprint to provide major impetus for its electronically-oriented publishing efforts in the United States and abroad.
In addition to publishing books in the traditional print medium, TELOS will concentrate on producing book/diskette combinations, stand-alone software, CD-ROM packages, on-line database products, and other forms of multimedia materials. Books published under the TELOS imprint will have a computational orientation and some type of electronic component as an integral part of the information package. Electronic products will be published across different platforms for the DOS, UNIX, Macintosh, and select other future operating systems as they emerge
The initial audience towards which TELOS will direct its publications includes scientists, engineers, academicians, students and a variety of professionals in the research, business, and education fields. The level of its product mix will vary from sophisticated research type reference works at the high end of the spectrum, to broadly accessible science trade kinds of publications at the low end.
The first products to be published under the TELOS imprint are scheduled to appear in fall, 1992.TELOS products will be produced primarily through utilization of appropriate desktop technologies relying on production resources on both the East and West Coasts. Emphasis will be placed on receiving author-produced camera-ready manuscript delivered to the publisher on paper, or by electronic means. Sales and distribution will be handled through established Springer channels, while marketing and promotion will be executed through the New York and Santa Clara offices.
The TELOS publishing activities emanating from the Santa Clara offices are directed by its Publisher, Allan M. Wylde, who was formerly with Addison-Wesley and most recently directed the Advanced Book Program. Wylde brings more than twenty-five years of highly successful scientific and educational publishing know-how to the task of developing the TELOS publications list, including prior experience with electronic media publishing.
For more information, please contact:
TELOS, The Electronic Library of Science
A Springer-Verlag Imprint
3600 Pruneridge Avenue, Suite 200
Santa Clara, CA 95051
408-249-9314
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For ordering information, please call: 1-800-SPRINGER
