Easing into electronic publishing

[Shunguo Liu]

    Besides PDF produced from Adobe Acrobat Distiller, there are other
no cost means, like PostScript, which can be produced by just installing
a PS driver (MS-Windows 3.1x, WFWG, 95, and NT all come with the driver).
Since Microsoft provides free MS-Word viewer, all Word documents can
also be directly put onto web servers.

Shunguo Liu
Univ. of Regina


At 02:02 PM 3/13/96 -0500, Gary Noonan wrote:
>        The recent messages about electronic publishing show that there is
>not yet a consensus on this topic. Some people worry about the archival
>quality of electronic publications and some perhaps simply prefer paper ones.
>         Perhaps the way to approach electronic publishing is by putting
>electronic reprints onto the World Wide Web of printed publications. Such a
>step will familiarize people with electronic papers and prepare the way
>perhaps for fully electronic journals. I have a monograph in press with the
>Milwaukee Public Museum, and it will be published by conventional printed
>methods.  Both the text and drawings are in electronic form. I'm going to
>ask the museum to purchase me Adobe Acrobat and will later put electronic
>reprints on our forthcoming World Wide Web pages. People will be able to
>view the monograph on their computer screens and print it out with
>pagination the same as in the printed form.
>         Another hopefully non-controversial project will be to convert the
>monograph into the first of a series of non-technical handbooks for
>identifying carabid beetles of wetlands. Since the beetles may be good
>environmental indicators, ecologists and  wetland managers may find such a
>handbook useful as may amateurs. World Wide Web publication through Adobe
>Acrobat files would seem to offer a low cost method of reaching out to
>non-systematists.
>         Electronic publishing gives us the opportunity to:(1) economically
>distribute reprints; (2) and economically distribute non-technical versions
>of our works. I know that electronic publishing will have other benefits but
>suggest that hopefully the above two benefits will be noncontroversial.
>
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>  * Gary Noonan, Curator of Insects, Milwaukee Public Museum  *
>  * 800 W. Wells,  Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 USA             *
>  * and Adjunct Associate Professor of Zoology, University of *
>  * Wisconsin-Milwaukee carabid at mpm1.mpm.edu                  *
>  * voice (414) 278-2762  fax (414) 223-1396                  *
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