BKSCHPUB.RVW   961220
 
"Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier", Robin P. Peek/Gregory B.
Newby, 1996, 0-262-16157-5, U$35.00
%E   Robin P. Peek rpeek@vmsvax.simmons.edu
%E   Gregory B. Newby gbnewby@uiuc.edu
%C   55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA   02142-1399
%D   1996
%G   0-262-16157-5
%I   MIT Press
%O   U$35.00 curtin@mit.edu www-mitpress.mit.edu
%P   363
%T   "Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier"
 
This book looks at the advantages, disadvantages, likelihood, and ramifications
of the electronic publication of academic papers.  In a series of essays, it
examines a wide variety of related issues.  Points addressed include the impact
of electronic publishing on scholarly life, different forms, affect on
traditional journals, peer review, economics, integrity, libraries, politics,
management, citation, and copyright.  Some articles deal in more depth than
others, but all raise serious issues.  A number of times pieces echo each
other, but this repetition serves to indicate what agreement does exist on the
major topics.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997   BKSCHPUB.RVW   961220
 
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