VPIEJ-L 02/92
VPIEJ-L Discussion Archives
February 1992
========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1992 16:20:00 EST Reply-To: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> Sender: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> From: James Powell <jpowell@vtvm1.bitnet> Subject: Catalyst As of 4:20PM, the official announcements sent out by Lon Savage for Catalyst have generated 50 new subscriptions since Friday afternoon. I'll forward the announcement to the list if anyone is interested. It was very effective! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .........................James Powell......................... ___....____________......Systems Support and Development...... \ \../ ___ ___/.........University Libraries, VPI & SU.... .\ \/ /../ /.............Blacksburg, VA - (703) 231-4987... ..\ /../ /..............FAX (703) 231-3694................ ...\ /../ /................................................. ....\/../__/..........INTERNET.....JPOWELL@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU.... ..........................(OR).....JPOWELL@VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU.... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 07:58:19 EST Reply-To: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> Sender: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> From: GMCMILLA@VTVM1.BITNET Subject: Re: Catalyst In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 3 Feb 1992 16:20:00 EST from <jpowell@vtvm1> Sure, let's see the announcement that generated so much interest! Thanks, Gail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .........................Gail McMillan........................ ___....____________......Serials Team Leader.................. \ \../ ___ ___/.........University Libraries VPI&SU....... .\ \/ /../ /.............Blacksburg, VA - (703) 231-9252... ..\ /../ /..............FAX (703) 231-3694................ ...\ /../ /................................................. ....\/../__/..........INTERNET.....gmcmilla@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU.... ......................BITNET.......gmcmilla@VTVM1............. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 08:28:26 EST Reply-To: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> Sender: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> From: Lon Savage <savage@vtvm1.bitnet> Here's the news release we sent out to various electronic media. I understand it will run in some others soon. - Lon. ======================================================================== 20-YEAR-OLD PRINT JOURNAL IS OFFERED ELECTRONICALLY The Community Services CATALYST, a refereed print journal that has been serving community college educators for more than twenty years, henceforth will be distributed as an electronic journal in addition to its print version, its editor has announced. Subscriptions to the electronic version of the journal are now available free of charge via Bitnet and the Internet, according to Dr. Darrel A. Clowes, editor of the journal and a member of the faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Already, interested persons may receive the last two issues of the journal by entering an electronic subscription, and plans are to make all future issues, and perhaps all past issues, available electronically, as well. The quarterly journal is published by the National Council on Community Services and Continuing Education, an affiliate council of the American Association of Community, Junior and Technical Colleges. The journal is being made available in its electronic form by the Scholarly Communications Project of Virginia Tech, which is seeking to explore some of the new frontiers in electronic communication of scholarly work. CATALYST currently is distributed in its print form to dues-paying members of the Council, as a benefit of their membership, and to libraries and other non-members at subscription prices of $20 per year in the U.S., $25 outside the U.S. The journal has a paid circulation (including members) of approximately 1200. When offered via Bitnet, a computer network of of educational and research institutions, and the Internet, a network of networks, the journal has the potential of reaching many new readers worldwide. It is believed to be one of the first traditional journals, distributed in print at subscription prices, to be offered electronically at no charge. Clowes said the Council approved offering the journal electronically last summer. One reason for the action was to make the journal more readily accessible to academic librries, an under-utilized market at this time, Clowes said. The Council is not concerned at this time that the electronic version may undercut paid print subscriptions, Clowes said, because most circulation is a function of members' dues. If the electronic version should prove to cost the journal significant numbers of paid subscriptions for the printed version, Clowes said the Council will address that situation at the time. The Council is a non- profit organization. To subscribe to the electronic journal, one need send only the command "SUBSCRIBE CATALYST Firstname Lastname" [where Firstname Lastname are the first and last names of the individual subscriber] by electronic mail to the address: LISTSERV@VTVM1 on Bitnet and LISTSERV@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU on the Internet. John Doe, for example, would send the command SUBSCRIBE CATALYST JOHN DOE. Electronic subscribers will receive instructions on how to order a list of available articles, how to retrieve full texts of those articles, and how to cancel their subscriptions. Electronic subscribers, in addition to having access to past issues of the journal, will be sent the Tables of Contents of future issues as those issues are published; the subscribers then may order full texts by electronic mail from their own computers of any and all articles they wish to read. Currently, all articles from Issues Number 3 and 4 of Volume 21 (1991) are available on line. Consideration will be given to adding all articles from the remaining back issues to the archive. With all parts of the journal on line, electronic subscribers anywhere in the world at any time of day or night would be able to obtain at their own computers full texts instantly of all the articles the journal has published. To make access to the journal more manageable, access is provided to individual articles, rather than to entire issues. Interested readers, of course, may order all articles from an issue, on an individual basis. CATALYST is reviewed and indexed in the CURRENT INDEX TO JOURNALS IN EDUCATION and in ERIC and is available in microfilm and microfiche from University Microfilms International. Articles submitted for publication are reviewed by the editorial staff and editorial board. Initiated in 1971, CATALYST is the second oldest continuously published journal in the community college field. It publishes practictioner-oriented articles on practices in continuing /community education as delivered by community colleges, including papers on research in the field. The journal is printed at Virginia Tech, a fact that makes it easier to coordinate the printed and electronic versions. # ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 08:26:07 EST Reply-To: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> Sender: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> Comments: Resent-From: James Powell <jpowell@vtvm1> Comments: Originally-From: GMCMILLA@VTVM1 From: James Powell <jpowell@vtvm1.bitnet> Subject: Re: Output of your job "GMCMILLA" In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 30 Jan 92 15:03:02 EST Has anyone had this problem yet? What did you do? Seems like it is going to be a problem sooner or later. If only CMS supported subdirectories... (I finally found it Gail!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .........................James Powell......................... ___....____________......Systems Support and Development...... \ \../ ___ ___/.........University Libraries, VPI & SU.... .\ \/ /../ /.............Blacksburg, VA - (703) 231-4987... ..\ /../ /..............FAX (703) 231-3694................ ...\ /../ /................................................. ....\/../__/..........INTERNET.....JPOWELL@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU.... ..........................(OR).....JPOWELL@VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU.... ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On a related matter, do you realize that if libraries subscribe to several e- journals, when they receive the files in their filelists, they can't tell one journal from another because the filename is "contents" (or something similar). It would make more sense if, instead of contents or index or whatever, they could receive: "Catalyst v21n4". Just a concern that may not have been addressed. Thanks, Gail Mc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .........................Gail McMillan........................ ___....____________......Serials Team Leader.................. \ \../ ___ ___/.........University Libraries VPI&SU....... .\ \/ /../ /.............Blacksburg, VA - (703) 231-9252... ..\ /../ /..............FAX (703) 231-3694................ ...\ /../ /................................................. ....\/../__/..........INTERNET.....gmcmilla@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU.... ......................BITNET.......gmcmilla@VTVM1............. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 08:50:54 EST Reply-To: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> Sender: "Publishing E-Journals at Virginia Tech" <vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet> From: "Harry M. Kriz" <kriz@vtvm1.bitnet> Subject: Re: Output of your job "GMCMILLA" In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 5 Feb 1992 08:26:07 EST from <jpowell@vtvm1> Having numerous files named INDEX is a common problem. See any FTP site. If you get indexes from many of them you winde up renaming them for your own purposes. I agree that it would be nice if the name of the file gave some indication of its origin and contents. Getting something reasonable in the 8/8 pattern may not always be easy. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry M. Kriz KRIZ@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU PHONE: (703)231-7052 Automation Librarian University Libraries Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Blacksburg, VA 24061-0434 ------------------------------------------------------------------- </jpowell@vtvm1></kriz@vtvm1.bitnet></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></jpowell@vtvm1.bitnet></jpowell@vtvm1></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></savage@vtvm1.bitnet></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></jpowell@vtvm1></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></jpowell@vtvm1.bitnet></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet></vpiej-l@vtvm1.bitnet>
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