>And let me reiterate a point that may be buried in what I have written
>above: the lack of a print coutnerpart for PMC makes it far less
>accessible than the other journals on Muse -- radically less, I would
>argue.
As someone who has published via PMC, and is considering doing so in the
future, I would like to add my voice to this (and also Russell Potter's
comments). The strength of PMC was that
a) it was scholary (peer reviewed, etc)
b) it was hypertextual (new forms of academic publication and writing)
c) anyone with net access could read it (from my local library to where
ever)
While points a and b remain all of a sudden no one at my campus (RMIT,
Melbourne Australia) can read my work, and the only way I seem to be able
to allow people to read it where they don't have subscription rights is
to make a copy avaialble.
However, where the work may be explicity hypertextual (for example
incorporates multimedia elements and relies on a web server) all of a
sudden it is no longer a case of just sending someone some text, but of
needing to send or even self publish a web based version, and in numerous
cases this might not be possible, and is probably in breach of the terms
of publication in PMC (I'm not sure about this last point).
And that leads to the question of mirrored pages/sites. A piece of mine
is mirrored on my server since it is bandwidth intensive, so it made
sense to keep a copy in Australia for Pacific users. Am I supposed to
remove this? or do the links from the original PMC edition still point to
the mirrored copy? And what in the future, would this still be an option
or only while the current issue is available? (I suppose if it moves to a
subscription model then the entire site could also be hosted, say in
Australia, Europe, and Japan...)
just ideas and concerns...
Adrian Miles
adrian miles, lecturer in cinema studies and new media
rmit, melbourne
talking:(03) 9660 3157 fax: (03) 9639 1685
web: http://cs.art.rmit.edu.au/adrian
snail: dept communication studies, gpo box 2476V melbourne 3001
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