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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:31:59 -0400
From: Albert Henderson <NobleStation@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: Cost per title...

on 26 Oct 2000 Diane M. Lewis <dilewis@USGS.GOV> wrote:

> Just could not resist launching into this one.  Why are citations to print
> preferable to those to edocs?  Anyone else had the unsettling experience of
> looking up a bibliographic reference to an edoc and getting 404ed?  Of
> course, sometimes you can't get to the print reference either, but chances
> are that you can get it pretty quickly on ILL.  And I won't even go into
> the what happens with ILL as regards commercially-produced ejournals.

Many style manuals require an exact page reference to quoted text.
With printed books is possible. With HTML the closest anyone can get
is to a chapter.

Thanks for your clarifying question.

I realize Serialst members probably aren't thinking of books, but
what's sauce for the goose ...

Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 1994-2000
<70244.1532@compuserve.com>