Alexander Kurz wrote:
An alternative way how libraries could support electronic publications arises from the following thoughts.
What will or should be the role of libraries in the digital age?
Certainly, buying and storing hardcopies will play a smaller and smaller role. So libraries should have an interest in finding something else to do, just to survive as institutions themselves. What could that be?
I think university libraries could become publishers of electronic journals. Universities should have an interest to host these journals, because they provide prestige for little money.
As a conclusion, maybe the libraries could be convinced to DO the `clerical support'.
Alexander
This would seem to involve libraries in the business of system administration. The CUNY Graduate Center hosts a few online academic journals (e.g., http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/ http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/lljournal ) using the Open Journal Systems journal open source management and publishing system ( URL: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs ). The library here is not involved in either site administration, which the IT department handles; or the management of the journals--the IT department delegates this function to the journal editors. FL -- Florian Lengyel, Ph.D. Assistant Director for Research Computing Department of Information Technology and Adjunct Professor Ph.D. Program in Computer Science Graduate School and University Center The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4420 New York, NY 10016 email: flengyel@gc.cuny.edu VOX: (212) 817-7374 FAX: (212) 817-1615 WWW: http://research.gc.cuny.edu