Re: Docster & Scholarly Publishing

[Karen Coyle <karen.coyle@ucop.edu>]

At 03:43 PM 5/24/00 -0400, Eric Schnell wrote:
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>         Does anyone else find this troubling?

Just about every major university and library in the country. Thus the
SPARC initiative (among others):
   http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.html

University of California has just launched a project in "e-scholarship" to
facilitate scholarly communication within the University, some of which
will undoubtedly bypass the traditional publishing paradigm. 

The question that always comes up (after the tenure issue) is that of
quality. I know that some people don't feel that acadamic publishers have
much of an editorial role and are convinced that a pure peer review model
will suffice. Publishers themselves might argue otherwise.



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