An open invitation to publish on CPMCnet An open invitation to publish on CPMCnet The Center for Academic Information Technology, a department of the Office of Scholarly Resources, Health Sciences Division, Columbia University, provides electronic publishing services to the undergraduate and graduate programs at Columbia's Health Sciences Campus and to the Presbyterian Hospital and its affiliated hospitals. Faculty members, administrators, health care providers and student groups are all actively invited to submit materials for online publication. As will be seen below, a wide variety of materials, submitted in many different formats, can be successfully presented electronically and made available to the CPMC community, and, if desired, to the rest of the world. Currently in a protoytpe phase, the Center is collaborating with the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons to design and publish a complete online curriculum. The Center is also working, in conjunction with the Department of Medical Informatics and the NY State Center for Advanced Technology, on design of advanced computer indexing tools for electronic publications.
Electronic publications designed by the center share a number of features.
Additionally, the interface always includes hierarchically designed help systems which include quick on-screen help and a more in depth online manual accessible by a single keystroke or mouse click. This new platform allows a number of additional features including encorporation of images, sounds, animations and other multimedia and the ability to link to other information resources anywhere on the global Internet. CPMCnet has the advantage of being accessible from on campus and off campus from any kind of computer. It also has the capability to restrict access for any given publication to a specified user community. Although the Center's electronic publications are stored and presented in a uniform format, they are submitted in a wide variety of formats including word processing, database and desktop publishing software from DOS, Windows, MAC and Unix computers as well as from print and scanned sources.