electronic communications (44)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Tue, 11 Apr 89 20:14:39 EDT
Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 819. Tuesday, 11 Apr 1989.
(1) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 89 19:18 EST (8 lines)
From: <RILEYD@IUBACS>
Subject: response for Gunhild Viden
(2) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 12:18:56 EDT (15 lines)
From: Joseph Raben <JQRBH@CUNYVM.bitnet>
Subject: electronic journals
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 89 19:18 EST
From: <RILEYD@IUBACS>
Subject: response for Gunhild Viden (on the nature of electronic
communications)
Two students here at Indiana University are working on just such a
project, if you like I will contact them initially; they have access to
bitnet and interbit as well and can respond directly to you and anyone else
who is interested.
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 12:18:56 EDT
From: Joseph Raben <JQRBH@CUNYVM.bitnet>
Subject: electronic journals
Anyone interested in the future of electronic journals should look up the
1981 volume of a journal called transaction/SOCIETY. In it Lauren Seiler
and I published the results of a study funded by the Sloan Foundation on
whether deans and chairs would consider electronic publications as a basis
for tenure and promotion. In all divisions -- not only science and social
science, but humanities as well -- the majority of responders voiced
their approval. Considering how primitive computers were at that time, how
vague the idea of an electronic journal was, and how little experience
anyone had had in trying to realize the concept, this response was very
encouraging. By now, the atmosphere should be even more nurturing for this
innovative mode of scholarly communication.