[9265] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
money, commercialization, and publishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Partridge)
Mon Dec 27 14:09:05 1993
To: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 93 11:07:38 -0800
Hi folks:
A little note in the November/December issue of Lingua franca (a slightly
dizzy publication on academia for academics) that might interest folks on
this list. On pp. 16-18 it discusses a system for delivering Elsevier
journals over the Internet called TULIP. The initial goal for TULIP was
to provide all the kind of thing a researcher might want -- high quality copies
of just the journal articles you want to read retrieved via the Internet for
a modest fee, and you and your library don't even have to subscribe to the
journal!
Lingua franca reports a snag -- folks are realizing that it is hard for
Elsevier (which makes big $$s from its journals) to make the same kind of
money by selling articles piecemeal. As a result, the pay-per-piece portion
of TULIP has been delayed.
Craig
PS: Lingua franca has now taken to listing tenure decisions for the sciences
(it used to just do humanities and social sciences), so the Nov/Dec issue
lists folks who recently got tenure in Computer Science. (As I say, a
journal for academics...)
