I'd like to bring NSPI readers up to date on The Chronicle's venture into electronic publishing. The paper is part of USCInfo, USC's popular campus information system, and is full-text searchable. We are so pleased with this partnership that we have extended it for another year. In that year we plan to continue adding news and opinion articles, and to supplement them with features such as our New Scholarly Books list, our Calendar of Events, and Fact Files such as enrollment by race. USC students and faculty members can walk up to any public terminal and search, read, and download Chronicle articles, or gain access to USCInfo from their desks through their free accounts.
People browse on line.
They read through headlines to find stor- ies that appeal to them, then call up the stories themselves. I'm sorry to say we are not yet ready for Hypertext, as Kirkland said Bonk and Sievers reported, but we haven't ruled it out, either. We hope that we will soon be able to make an electronic Chronicle widely available. I regret having to take this action, but this is neces- sary in fairness to the many libraries who support this journal, thereby making its continued publication possible. The faculty member asked me if I knew how widesparead this two-tier pricing structure was.