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From: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Computer-Based Journals
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Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 20:26:03 EDT
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With regard to Andrew Jennings and computer based journals:

This is already being done to some extent by several journals.  The
Physical Review, published by the American Institute of Physics, has
been accepting articles submitted as troff source for several years.
There is an incentive of 50% off of the page charges if this format
is used.  Last time I checked, articles had to be sent on tape via USNail.

Another journal that is very much on top of things is Complex Systems,
edited by Stephen Wolfram at the University of Illinois.  The articles
can be in LaTeX format, and figures can be in PostScript.  They can be
submitted via electronic mail to Arpanet, Bitnet, Csnet, or UUCP addresses.

I'm not sure if the reviewing process for Complex Systems uses
electronic mail, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did *if* they
knew the reviewer had the appropriate output capabilities.  Unfortunately,
the slow link in the reviewing process is not the exchange, but the
reviewers themselves :-), so this is probably not very important.

As for final distribution, it would probably be much more expensive
to distribute a journal via e-mail rather than USNail; many of them
are very large.  There are certainly some advantages, though, from
the point of view of searching for articles of interest, if the
journal is electronically stored.

	      Scott R. Anderson