[248] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
E-Journals and challenges
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Briggs, public relations)
Wed May 13 11:53:42 1992
Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 10:36:00 CDT
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From: "Carl Briggs, public relations" <BRIGGS%AB.WVNET.EDU@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
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Those who are interested in the role of newly established journals in furthering
scholarship will appreciate last Sunday's _Washington Post_ magazine cover
(sorry, not the cover) story on the _Biblical Archeological Review_ (please
forgive wrong title/spelling...it's late and I'm feeling pretty lazy).
Anyway, the BAR did much to free the Dead Sea Scrolls (the list can debate if
that was a good idea), and it is a recent journal that was as much opinion and
letters to the editor as it was an effort at some sort of scholarship.
Bottom line: new, innovate E-Journals can hold the established order's feet
to the fire. There is a crucial role to be played by easily distributed and
freely shared scholarship, and it will further our ability to instruct
students, which _ought_ to be one of the purposes, if not _the_ purpose,
of these journals _anyway_.
'Nuff soapbox. Bye.
