Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 15:07:55 -0500
From: Pat Ensor <PLEnsor@UH.EDU>
Subject: PACS Review, v. 8, n. 2

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            The Public-Access Computer Systems Review

Volume 8, Number 2 (1997)                          ISSN 1048-6542
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COMMUNICATIONS

Bruce Morgan, Is the Journal as We Know It an Article of Faith?
An Open Letter to the Faculty

     The Dean of Libraries of Montana State University explains
     his conclusion that "the specialized paper-based journal no
     longer is effective in the wide or timely dissemination of
     scholarship."  He notes, "We need to explore how we might
     achieve scholarly communication that is more effective and
     that will still adhere to the academic values
     (well-thought-out, well-written, well-researched,
     well-documented articles) that we have always deemed
     important."  He makes unique use of Thomas Kuhn's ideas
     about scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts to call for
     a move from paper to electronic scholarly journals.

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          World Wide Web:

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COLUMNS

Casting the Net

     Priscilla Caplan, Will the Real Internet Please Stand Up?

     NGI, Internet2, IPv6, IPng--who can make sense out of it any
     more?  Priscilla Caplan untangles the web of current
     Internet initiatives, relating what's what, what's new,
     what's old, and who's doing what.  She also provides a look
     at what difference this makes to Internet users.

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          World Wide Web:

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Editors-in-Chief

Pat Ensor and Thomas C. Wilson
University Libraries
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-2091
(713) 743-9762 and 743-9673
plensor@uh.edu and twilson@uh.edu

Associate Editor, Columns

Leslie Dillon, OCLC

Associate Editor, Communications

Andrea Bean Hough, University of Houston

Associate Editor, Production

Ann Thornton, New York Public Library

Associate Editor, Technical Support

Robert Spragg, University of Houston

Editorial Board

Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin
George H. Brett II
Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago
Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc.
Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group
Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath
Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz
Stephen P. Harter, Indiana University
Charles Hildreth, University of Oklahoma
Ronald Larsen, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Clifford Lynch, Division of Library Automation, University of
     California
David R. McDonald, Tufts University
R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego
Ann Okerson, Yale University
Mike Ridley, University of Guelph
Peggy Seiden, Skidmore College
Peter Stone
John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University

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Publication Information

The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is an electronic
journal that is distributed on the Internet.  It is published on
an irregular basis by the University Libraries, University of
Houston.  There is no subscription fee.

To subscribe, send an email message to listserv@listserv.uh.edu
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subscribers). PACS-P@LISTSERV.UH.EDU: 3,848 subscribers in 68
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Each article is initially distributed in both ASCII and HTML
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ASCII files are paginated.  HTML files are not paginated.  HTML
files may have linked GIF files.  HTML files may have internal
links, external links, or both.  The editors do not maintain
external links.  ASCII and HTML files are available from the
following server:

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In consultation with article authors, the editors determine
whether an article is updated, whether both ASCII and HTML files
are created for updated articles, and whether all prior versions
of an article are retained.

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The first five volumes of The Public-Access Computer Systems
Review are also available in book form from the American Library
Association's Library and Information Technology Association
(LITA).

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