Here are some possible answers to Julia's questions.
At 1:06 PM -0400 10/18/02, Julia Flanders wrote:
>A few questions/annotations on Geoffrey's plan, which in general
>sounds very good to me:
>
>>1. The ACH alters their relationship with CHUM so that member do
>>not have to subscribe to CHUM. It continues to be a choice (ie.
>>they can pay an extra $50 or so to also get CHUM.)
>
>Would Kluwer continue to offer its discounted CHUM subscription rate
>to ACH members if the relationship were severed? (this is a minor
>point of curiosity, not anything substantive)
I doubt Kluwer would, but it would be up to them. The point is that
we would no longer committ to giving all members a subscription. This
would free ACH to have student memberships that did not committ to a
subscription to any journal.
>
>>5. Humanist would continue as is, as would the CHWP.
>
>I don't know whether CHWP is sufficiently closely tied to the ACH to
>be represented here as part of ACH (and if it's not, would it be
>worth bringing it in officially?). But it seems to me that as long
>as we're overhauling and consolidating, it would be worth talking
>about this corner of the universe as well. Having some sort of
>preprint archive or similar organ would be useful for all of the
>organizations involved. CHWP could certainly use an update--e.g.
>putting into a searchable database form?
Good point. CHWP seems to me to be languishing - this could give it a
better connection and purpose.
>
>>7. Likewise we pool our WWW sites into one WWW site with a mirror
>>on a different continent (or two.) We pool the funds we have for
>>administering our WWW sites and find a unit willing to run the
>>respective sites for us. One goal for this would be building a
>>long-term archive for ACH/ALLC conference abstracts.
>
>And perhaps also abstracts from DRH, TEI conferences, other related
>conferences?
Great idea.
Geoffrey R.
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