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Electronic Publishing for Physics and Astronomy

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. André Heck

    1. Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 224)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Electronic Publishing in Its Context

    • A. Heck
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Impact of Information Technology and Networks: New Perspectives for Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) Publishing

    • A. De Kemp
    Pages 11-16

  4. Advanced Multimedia Publishing: Where does Europe Stand in the Wired World?

    • F. A. Mastroddi
    Pages 17-30

  5. The Technologies Which Underpin Electronic Publishing

    • F. D. Murtagh
    Pages 31-40

  6. Electronic Publishing: The Role of a Large Scientific Society

    • B. Bederson, H. Lustig
    Pages 41-53

  7. The AAS Program of Electronic Publication

    • P. B. Boyce
    Pages 55-62

  8. The Project of Electronic Publication of Astronomy and Astrophysics

    • H. J. Habing, J. Lequeux
    Pages 63-68

  9. The ACM Electronic Publishing Plan

    • P. J. Denning, B. A. Rous
    Pages 69-82

  10. The ACM Interim Copyright Policy

    • P. J. Denning, B. A. Rous
    Pages 83-93

  11. The ICSU Press Programme on Electronic Publishing in Science

    • D. F. Shaw
    Pages 95-116

  12. Electronic Publishing: Economic Issues in a Time of Transition

    • Harry Lustig
    Pages 117-132

  13. Rights Management in Electronic Environments

    • D. Armati
    Pages 133-144

  14. Protecting Published Science

    • E. Barrow
    Pages 145-153

  15. Bits and Bytes and Still a Lot of Paper: Astronomy Libraries and Librarians in the Age of Electronic Publishing

    • U. Grothkopf
    Pages 155-174

  16. The Role of Data Centres in the Era of Electronic Publishing

    • D. Egret, F. Genova
    Pages 175-188

  17. The Digital Library of the Astrophysics Data System

    • G. Eichhorn
    Pages 189-210

  18. Electronic Yellow-Page Services: The Star*s Family as an Example of Diversified Publishing

    • A. Heck
    Pages 211-220

  19. Electronic Publishing at Institute of Physics

    • A. Dixon
    Pages 221-239

  20. Ideal and Appeal

    • J. Menzel, K. Metzner, E. Pope
    Pages 241-250
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The ship has left the Miraflores Locks, let loose from the 'mules' run by the crews of the Panama Canal Commission. She has picked up speed while passing under the Bridge of the Americas which links de facto the Northern and Southern parts of the continent, and has headed resolutely towards the Pacific Ocean waters along the rows of boats of all kinds waiting to cross the Canal in the other direction. Through a layer of tropical clouds, the setting Sun is bleakly illuminating the tall white highrises of Panama City on the port side. It took a full day to cautiously move through the whole system of locks and cuts. Back in the stateroom, I open again a working copy of this book and type down this foreword on the pocket computer. The last chapter was received the day before while speeding through the Caribbean Sea and my main work as Editor is now over. It has been a real pleasure and a great honour to be given the oppor­ tunity of compiling this book and interacting with the various contributors through the latest technologies while being sometimes in geographically very different places. The quality of the authors, the scope of experiences they cover, the messages they convey make of this book a unique and timely publication. The reader will certainly enjoy as much as I did going through such a variety of well-inspired chapters from so many different horizons.

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  • Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France

    André Heck

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