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From: Kristofferson@BIONET-20.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Re: BIO-JOURNALS newsgroup
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Date: 11 Apr 89 16:05:24 GMT
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The organization of a BIO-JOURNALS newsgroup is an excellent idea,
but it will of real help only if the various journal contents will
be organized in the same format. As of now, there are as many formats
as there are journals who are willing to participate in this project.
You can't have software for each of them individually.
But otherwise, a laudable initiative.

Hans van Ormondt
Sylvius Laboratory
Leiden, NL.
WMBORMOND@HLERUL52.BITNET
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to comment.  Actually we are taking
steps to standardize on a format (a subset of Medline).  The last few
postings from J. Virol., Mol. Cell. Biol. and CABIOS are converging.
The publishers have been very cooperative to date, but I can not force
anyone to conform to a standard if it is economically unfeasible for
them.  We will do our best in this area, but it seems that it is
better to get the data at least for on-line browsing than not at all
if format is a sticking point.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				BIONET Resource Manager

				kristofferson@bionet-20.bio.net

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