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Is the Journal as We Know It an Article of Faith? An Open Letter to the Faculty
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1997)
Discusses 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 ...
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1992)
Provides 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 ...
Using the World-Wide Web to Deliver Complex Electronic Documents: Implications for Libraries
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994)
Explores 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 ...
The Victorian Women Writers Project: The Library as a Creator and Publisher of Electronic Texts
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1996)
Describes 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 ...
OJAC: An Electronic Document Delivery System for British Columbia Post-Secondary Students
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993)
Describes 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. ...
Are Library Users Also Computer Users? A Survey of Faculty and Implications for Services.
(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1997)
Describes 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 ...