Scholarly electronic publishing on the Internet, the NREN, and the NII: charting possible futures

1. For additional sources of information about network-based electronic publishing, see: Charles W. Bailey, Jr., "Electronic Publishing on Networks: A Selective Bibliography of Recent Works," The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 3, no. 2 (1992): 13-20 (To retrieve this article, send an e-mail message that says "GET BAILEY PRV3N2 F=MAIL" to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU.); and Charles W. Bailey, Jr., "Electronic Publishing on Networks: Part II of a Selective Bibliography," The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 2 (1994): 5-14 (To retrieve this file, send the following e-mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU: GET BAILEY PRV5N2 F=MAIL). Both files are also available from the University of Houston Libraries' Gopher server: INFO.LIB.UH.EDU, port 70.

2. For a broad discussion of the future of commercial publishing, see: Donald T. Hawkins, et al., "Forces Shaping the Electronic Publishing Industry in the 1990s," Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy 2 (Winter 1992): 38-60.

3. Czeslaw Jan Grycz, "Economic Models for Networked Information," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 11-14.

4. Miriam A. Drake, "Buying Articles in the Future," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 75-77.

5. Charles W. Bailey, Jr., "The Coalition for Networked Information's Acquisition-on-Demand Model: An Exploration and Critique," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 78-81.

6. Karen Hunter, "The National Site License Model," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 71-72, 91.

7. Sharon J. Rogers and Charlene S. Hurt, "How Scholarly Communication Should Work in the 21st Century," College & Research Libraries 51 (January 1990): 5-8.

8. Peter R. Young, "National Corporation for Scholarly Publishing: Presentation and Description of the Model," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 100-101.

9. Young, 101.

10. Jerome Yavarkovsky, "A University-Based Electronic Publishing Network," EDUCOM Review 25 (Fall 1990): 14-20. (I have used the term "University-Based Publishing System" to describe Yavarkovsky's unnamed system.)

11. "Task Force Report Looks at Future of Information Services," Bulletin of the American Physical Society 36, no 4 (1991): 1,105- 1,151. For further discussion, see: T. D. Schultz, "A World Physics Information System: An Online, Highly Interactive Discipline-Oriented Facility," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 45-48.

12. Stevan Harnad, "Interactive Publication: Extending the American Physical Society's Discipline-Specific Model for Electronic Publishing," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 58-61.

13. Vicky Reich, "Discipline-Specific Literature Bases: A View of the APS Model," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 52-54, 65.

14. Charles W. Bailey, Jr., "Network-Based Electronic Serials," Information Technology and Libraries 11 (March 1992): 29-35.

15. Ann Okerson, "The Missing Model: `A Circle of Gifts,'" Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 92-96.

16. For an excellent overview of "fair use" and other copyright issues, see: L. Ray Patterson and Stanley W. Lindberg, The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users' Rights (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991).

17. For speculations about network-based multimedia systems, see: Charles W. Bailey, Jr., "Intelligent Multimedia Computer Systems: Emerging Information Resources in the Network Environment," Library Hi Tech 8, no. 1 (1990): 29-41; and Stephen Bulick, "Future Prospects for Network-Based Multimedia Information Retrieval," The Electronic Library 8 (April 1990): 88-99.

18. High-speed, high-quality printing on demand is likely to be a key technology in the network environment. The following projects suggest the potential of this technology: Sally Taylor, "Primis Mover: McGraw-Hill's Revolutionary Custom Textbook System Comes of Age at Cal-San Diego," Publishers Weekly (13 January 1992): 24-25; and CUPID Architecture Subcommittee, CUPID Protocols and Services (Version 1): An Architectural Overview (Washington, DC: Coalition for Networked Information, 1992).

19. "Task Force Report," 1,137-1,138.

20. "Task Force Report," 1,137.

21. Timothy Stephen and Teresa M. Harrison, "Comserve: An Electronic Community for Communication Scholars," in Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks: The New Generation: Visions and Opportunities in Not-for-Profit Publishing: Proceedings of the Second Symposium, ed. Ann Okerson (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1993), 53-58.

22. For different perspectives on the role of university presses as electronic publishers, see: Kenneth Arnold, "The Scholarly Monograph is Dead, Long Live the Scholarly Monograph," in Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks: The New Generation: Visions and Opportunities in Not-for-Profit Publishing: Proceedings of the Second Symposium, ed. Ann Okerson (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1993), 73-79; Thomas J. DeLoughry, "University Presses Try to Ride the Wave of Electronic Publishing," The Chronicle of Higher Education (24 March 1993): A17-A19; Lisa Freeman, "Big Challenges Face University Presses in the Electronic Age," The Chronicle of Higher Education (28 April 1993): A44; and Sanford G. Thatcher, "Towards the Year 2001," Scholarly Publishing 24 (October 1992): 25-37.

23. For further information about networked information access issues, see: Clifford A. Lynch, "The Development of Electronic Publishing and Digital Library Collections on the NREN," Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy 1 (Winter 1991): 6-22.

24. "Oxford University Press to Publish Postmodern Culture," Public-Access Computer Systems News 3, no. 15 (1992): 2. To retrieve the issue containing this article, send the following e- mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU: GET PACSNEWS V3N15 F=MAIL.

25. "Electronic Version of the Journal of Technology Education Offers Graphics," Public-Access Computer Systems News 3, no. 5 (1992): 4-5. To retrieve the issue containing this article, send the following e-mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU: GET PACSNEWS V3N5 F=MAIL.

26. For a discussion of publisher concerns, see: Tim King, "Critical Issues for Providers of Network-Accessible Information," EDUCOM Review 26 (Summer 1991): 29-33.

27. David L. Wilson, "Major Scholarly Publisher to Test Electronic Transmission of Journals," The Chronicle of Higher Education (3 June 1992): A17, A20.

28. Thomas J. DeLoughry, "Effort to Provide Scholarly Journals by Computer Tries to Retain the Look and Feel of Printed Publications," The Chronicle of Higher Education (7 April 1993): A19-A21.

29. Ann Okerson, "With Feathers: Effects of Copyright and Ownership on Scholarly Publishing," College & Research Libraries 52 (September 1991): 427.

30. Scott Bennett, "Copyright and Innovation in Electronic Publishing: A Commentary," The Journal of Academic Librarianship 19, no. 2 (1993): 88.

31. For example, the Association for Research Libraries has issued "Guidelines for Licensing Local Databases" for use by its members, and the Coalition for Networked Information is sponsoring the Rights for Electronic Access to and Delivery of Information (READI) Program to explore how licensing can be effectively used for electronic information. For more information on READI, see: Paul Evan Peters, "Making the Market for Networked Information: An Introduction to a Proposed Program for Licensing Electronic Uses," Serials Review 18, no. 1-2 (1992): 19-24.

32. Okerson, "With Feathers," 429-30.

33. Mitchell Kapor and Daniel J. Weitzner, "Developing the National Communications and Information Infrastructure," Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy 3 (Summer 1993): 21-30; and Larry Press, "The Internet and Interactive Television," Communications of the ACM 36 (December 1993): 19-23, 140.

34. Bill Powell, et al., "Eyes on the Future," Newsweek (31 May 1993): 38-41.

35. "A Public Interest Vision for the NII," ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions (November 1993): 1-2.