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Electronic publishing and the indispensability of publishers

Electronic publishing and the indispensability of publishers LOGOS Electronic publishing and the indispensability of publishers Sandra M Whisler Prior to her appointment as Assistant Director for Electronic Publishing and Serials at the University of California Press in AprU 1994, Sandra Whisler spent more than twenty years in journals publishing at the University of Chicago Press, Springer Verlag New York and the University of California Press. She has been active in the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) and the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the SSP. She can be reached at smw@garnet.berkeley.edu. I define electronic publishing as publishing cu:tivities that have as their end the distribution of knowledge by elec• tronic means, not the use of electronic technobgies to speed up or reduce the cost of print publicatbn. Nor do I include in my definition the rapidly spreading use of World Wide Web home pages for innovative online marketing. Discussions of electionic publishing often pose two extiemes: eithei extiavagant and some• times fantastic piedictions of a revolution that will tiansfoim the entiie publishing industry in eighteen months or a deep sense of anxiety and foreboding on the part of those whose piofessional lives centei round http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

Electronic publishing and the indispensability of publishers

Logos , Volume 7 (1): 120 – Jan 1, 1996

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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0957-9656
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1878-4712
DOI
10.2959/logo.1996.7.1.120
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Abstract

LOGOS Electronic publishing and the indispensability of publishers Sandra M Whisler Prior to her appointment as Assistant Director for Electronic Publishing and Serials at the University of California Press in AprU 1994, Sandra Whisler spent more than twenty years in journals publishing at the University of Chicago Press, Springer Verlag New York and the University of California Press. She has been active in the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) and the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the SSP. She can be reached at smw@garnet.berkeley.edu. I define electronic publishing as publishing cu:tivities that have as their end the distribution of knowledge by elec• tronic means, not the use of electronic technobgies to speed up or reduce the cost of print publicatbn. Nor do I include in my definition the rapidly spreading use of World Wide Web home pages for innovative online marketing. Discussions of electionic publishing often pose two extiemes: eithei extiavagant and some• times fantastic piedictions of a revolution that will tiansfoim the entiie publishing industry in eighteen months or a deep sense of anxiety and foreboding on the part of those whose piofessional lives centei round

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