Both groups need to understand the importance of electronic dissemination. Kate Wittenberg followed. Through a cooperation of Columbia University Press, the university s Computing Center and the library, Wittenberg s group hopes to develop an interactive online resource for the Earth Sciences. All of this material is available by subscription. It is peer-reviewed.
Scholars can use the material in other formats.
What Columbia is selling is the model and the access. The next speaker was David Denson of the Institute of Physics. There are several unique features about this new venture of the IOP and German Physical Society. The New Journal of Physics , which began in December of 1998, is purely electronic and covers all areas of physics. It is offered free via the internet.