Friday, 6 October 2006 - 8:25 AM
Violet Meeting Room (Lost Dog Cafe Coffeehouse)
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The impact of web technology on scholarly publishing

David P. Martinsen, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC

Over the last ten years or so, most scientific publications have migrated to the Web. More recently, digitization of material that was formerly available only on paper, microfiche, or perhaps CD-ROM, has brought that material to the Web as well. At the present time, most of these publications are created in both electronic editions as well as print. Though often predicted, print editions have not yet disappeared. The last two years have seen a variety of new technologies (blogs, wikis, folksonomies, etc), collectively called Web 2.0, which have altered the ways in which individuals interact with each other over the Web. These new technologies, as well as the broad availability of scholarly material on the Web, have begun to make an impact in the way scholarly material is delivered to scientists. This talk will examine some of the ways in which the ACS has altered its electronic editions in response to these technologies, and will also focus on the impact of these technologies may have in the future.


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