It will be launched to the target audience at an evening event at Worcester College, Oxford on 23 September. Push' and 'smart pull' technology ideas lie behind the use of 'channels' in the Pre-prints section. Selected articles from the Pre-prints pool can be read on screen in the online Journal. Other areas of the Pre-prints section are restricted so that journal editorial boards can use the system for peer review prior to print publication, in this way positioning the service as a tool for academics working in a parallel print and Web publishing environment. A playful Living Dictionary helps to put users at ease.
Formations is very much a user-driven tool.
There will be no content in it unless users contribute their work. Fleming rejects the idea that use-count equates directly to value in this type of project. There is no point in becoming fixated with the notion of getting hundreds of thousands of users. The goal is the learning process itself. Part of that process is to look at why people are not using the service.