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At 16:32 25/06/98 -0400, Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre wrote: >I was also very serious about personally inviting this list to really >consider the journal. This list is where the practioners post and lurk. >We want both theory and down-in-the-trenches experience. I think this list >has both in abundance. I agree. It is very important that *ML is realised as a worthy academic discipline. And, that the J sets high standards. Does the J consider: - papers in XML. If so, how are they processed? - e-only publications (i.e. interactive papers which cannot be rendered on cellulose? - dynamic papers (e.g. with revisions, annotations, distributed authorship, etc.) I am not suggesting anything gimmicky per se, but XML - for me - is an enormous liberating influence for publication. I would like to see Js accept non-conventional submissions. [I have recently come back from a week with the International Federation of Science Editors]. The role of *editors* is being transformed into quality review - which it should be - rather than technical processing. I don't know how many of you publish technical papers - but it can be a nightmare with different formats for tables, graphics, etc. Henry runs a very innovative e-publication. Each summer he runs an e-conference for chemistry. It's peer reviewed and there are comments on other papers. One major feature is that we are gradually adding CML facilities so that the molecules in the papers can be captured at source. I have very severe reservations about the automatic assessment of Js (the 'impact factor'). This always works against new Js - like this one - and it takes time to build up a reputation. it is important that the J is abstracted. For Henry's conference this requires it to be captured on CDROM and sent to Chemical Abstracts Service (they automatically abstract all printed chemical and related papers). He is assigned an ISBN for each CDROM, and the papers are citable. Anyway - I'd be interested in hearing ideas from the editoriat. I think - within reason - there could be some useful discussion here about e-publication and XML. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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