The Public-Access Computer Systems Review
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The Public-Access Computer Systems Review was the first open access journal in the field of library and information science. It covered issues such as digital libraries, electronic publishing, the Internet, and online catalogs.
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Item Are Library Users Also Computer Users? A Survey of Faculty and Implications for Services.(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1997) Meer, Vander; Fravel, Patricia; Poole, Howard; Valey, Thomas VanDescribes the results of a survey of faculty members at Western Michigan University which was conducted to explore the relationship between faculty use of university libraries and faculty use of computers. Implications for libraries are discussed, including computer databases, faculty assistance, collaboration with computing staff, and marketing of electronic services.Item Is the Journal as We Know It an Article of Faith? An Open Letter to the Faculty(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1997) Morton, BruceDiscusses scholarly communication, functions of scholarly journals, and the possibility of changing from a printed version to an electronic journal. Highlights include dissemination; timeliness; peer review; recognition and award; rising costs of printed journals and decreasing serials budgets in academic libraries; paradigm shifts; and new models for consideration.Item OJAC: An Electronic Document Delivery System for British Columbia Post-Secondary Students(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993) Copeland, LynnDescribes the Online Journal Access Citation (OJAC) project developed with the British Columbia Electronic Library Network and Simon Fraser University to demonstrate the feasibility of an electronic document delivery system. Topics discussed include publicity, training, and documentation; telecommunications; effects on regular interlibrary loans; user satisfaction; and borrowing and lending costs. (Contains two references.)Item Two Steps Forward, One Step Back(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1992) Crawford, WaltProvides several examples of drawbacks encountered when technological improvements are applied to the public access of library databases. Suggests that technological advances all carry some trade-off and that they should be employed cautiously.Item Using the World-Wide Web to Deliver Complex Electronic Documents: Implications for Libraries(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994) Price-Wilkin, JohnExplores the benefits and limitations of the World Wide Web in the context of projects taking place at the University of Virginia Library and the university's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. A gateway between the Web and PAT, a text retrieval program based on SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), is described.Item The Victorian Women Writers Project: The Library as a Creator and Publisher of Electronic Texts(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1996) Willett, PerryDescribes the Victorian Women Writers Project, a full-text poetry database created and published on the World Wide Web by Indiana University Libraries. Electronic formats such as graphical, character-based, and proprietary files are discussed, along with standards for formatting, including ASCII, HTML, and Text Encoding Initiatives. Decisions must consider archival nature and accessibility.