Re: Should Publishers Offer Free-Access Services?

I second everything Tony says below.

We *must* move away from all proprietary formats, exactly as we had better
strive to develop open source software for scholarly e-publishing.

Jean-Claude Guedon

> Tony Barry <tonyb@NETINFO.COM.AU> wrote:
>
> Thomas J. Walker wrote:
> >In my opinion, libraries should actively solicit scientific societies to
> >post and archive the PDF files of the articles in their paper-published
> >journals.
>
> Just a plea to NOT standardise on a proprietry format and in particular not
> PDF. Sure, supply PDF as well for those who only want to print.
>
> Reading PDF online is like trying to read through a keyhole and the files
> are huge, slow to print and there are reliability problems.
>
> The format to aim for is XML (Extensible mark up language) which will
> enable extentions such as MathML and ChemML for specialist purposes and the
> format is open.
Received on Tue Aug 25 19:17:43 1998