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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:20:13 EDT
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- From: BILL MCCONNELL <MCCONNWF@DUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Copyrights and profit motive
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:56:00 EDT from <GMP@PSUVM>
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- Gerald's summary of electronic publishing and scholars (promotion,
- etc.) is accurate and realistic. It lacks a point, however, which
- I would suggest is a major deterrent at this time for those with a
- work of value to the academic community. And that is a very basic one -
- the peer reviewed journals that we are discussing are not indexed
- (beyond their own archive). To anyone wanting(needing) exposure to
- the opinions of other scholars, indexing of their work has to be a
- significant consideration when it comes time to select a journal
- for publication.
- I am a strong supporter of our desires to get "real" electronic
- journals up and running. However, as an individual with a paper that
- I want to see given broad consideration, and as an individual that
- points other scholars to the strong and deep indexes(as a librarian),
- I am planning to publish in a journal with strong indexing. Until the
- electronic journal can offer that exposure, it will walk on the fringes
- of academia.
- Bill McConnell
- Drexel University Library
- Philadelphia, PA
-