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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:31:16 EST
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- Subject: Re: PMC/OUP
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- Paul Gherman asks about the financial support of an e-journal and
- the Oxford/Post-Modern Culture arrangement. Is OUP "publishing"
- this journal? It sounds more like what we would call
- "distributing." What exactly will OUP be doing for the journal?
- Paying for copy-editing or editorial office expenses, or just the
- order-processing and marketing expenses?
-
- It will be very interesting to see if it is possible to sell
- microfiche of something that is freely available over the
- internet. If it succeeds, this will be a useful addition to the
- already wide range of possible arrangements between publishers
- and journals.
-
- I do wonder about the applicability of this model to larger
- journals, particularly in equations/tables/graphics intensive
- disciplines. I doubt, for example, that we could sell enough
- microfiche of the Astrophysical Journal & Supplement to pay for
- the five full-time copy-editors that prepare its 20,000 pages per
- year, even if we were to dispense with typesetting, printing, and
- mailing.
-
- Evan Owens
- Information Systems Manager
- Journals Division
- The University of Chicago Press
- internet: eowens@press.uchicago.edu
-