[Taxacom] e-publishing: a hint from the real world

[Chris Thompson]

All:

As a loyal subscriber and reader who has a current subscription until 04 Feb 
2016 , I am very upset that I will no longer be able to sit in my chair and 
read a real magazine. AND who are hurt the most is the older people who no 
longer can understand / use computer / online interfaces, etc.

BUT as for PRESERVATION, I do not worry.

In biology / taxonomy, we now, for example, have the Biodiversity Heritage 
Library program. So, today regardless of who and where you are, if you have 
access to the internet you can get copies of old biodiversity literature 
(the pre-1923 copyright barrier).

So, while I have a large personal library of old books and reprints, TODAY I 
can find an article faster by doing a query online at  my computer than 
looking among my library.

As for long-term preservation, already the library community has worked 
together to develop a network of servers who promise to maintain these 
original digital files.

Sincerely,

Chris Thompson

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gerwin Kasperek
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 11:05 AM
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] e-publishing: a hint from the real world


... so at Newsweek they must have found solutions for digital
preservation issues that no one else has found yet. I wonder whether
they will tell us how to solve these issues.

Regards
Gerwin Kasperek



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Dr Gerwin Kasperek
University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg
Bockenheimer Landstr. 134-138
60325 Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
g.kasperek at ub.uni-frankfurt.de
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Quoting Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org>:

> Newsweek magazine ends print edition to go online-only
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> A news that nobody could have expected even most recently. That's
> the real world.
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>  <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19989346>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19989346
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