>In other words, the relevance of
>electronic publishing has everything to do with how we construct
>our scholarly way of life. Faster/cheaper may be the proximate
>cause of leaping from print into the cyberjournal, but having
>lept one discovers richer complexities. Let us have commentary on
>these here.
Speaking as an editor and publisher as well as a humanities scholar, I
fully agree thate-publishing is the way to go, and I sincerely hope I can
persuade some of my subscribers to accept an electronic vrsion of the
periodical I publish. It will be cheaper and easier, I'm convinced (I'm not
embarked on this project yet, but it's next). And the reason for speed in
publishing is not only that someone else might beat you to a scoop, but the
conditions about which we write are, in some fields at least, liable to
undego significant change before the research hits print, and be outdated
before they ever appear. I would argue that e-pub is not only valuable but
necessary, not only desirable but imperative. Besides, all the skills of
editing, design, etc. are no less available in this new medioum than they
are in the old.
--Ted Daniels, Ph.D. Director Millennium Watch Institute PO Box 34021 Philadelphia, PA 19101-4021 USA 800/666-4694 mpred@usa.pipeline.com