Re: [acn-l] question for members

Dean A. Hendrickson (deanhend at mail.utexas.edu)
Sat, 08 May 1999 12:26:33 -0500

As one of the electronically connected ones, I'd say turn it into an
electronic only publication. The "expense" of getting it to paper is
substantially more than real dollars paid to printers, post office etc. if
you count volunteers' time and effort which is really substantial (and many
not involved in this don't have a clue how much time goes is invested).
Depending on how you publish it electronically, you still may have much of
the same formatting headaches to get it to PDF, etc., but if it is to be
served in a searchable database format it could be almost immediately
published following article submission without great investment in
formatting. If it goes to web-only publication, however, that should
probably be in accompaniment with extensive e-mail notification of its
availability and possibly periodic notices of updates, etc.

Dean

At 05/07/99 02:25 PM -0700, you wrote:
>G'day folks
>
>Recently the BOD was discussion future options for where and how to publish
>Aquatic Survival. Two options were presented,
>
>1/ continue publishing the paper version as is, with issues being put on the
>web after a year or so delay (as it is now);
>
>2/ just publish it on the web and effectively do away with any financial or
>other hassles involved with having to deal with membership etc etc.
>
>Perhaps folks on this list would care to share their thoughts? I think it is
>also worth keeping in mind that this is only going out to the electronically
>connected portion of the membership.
>
>Cheers
>Peter J Unmack peter.unmack at asu.edu
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>
>In the end, We will conserve only what we love,
>
>We will love only what we understand,
>
>We will understand only what we are taught
>
> --Baba Dioum Senegalese conservationist
>
>
>
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