Dear Lyman, Guy and Otto,
I surely agree that on-line publication is a must for the present and future. However, conference proceedings in paper form continue to be appreciated by conference attendees and that might still be the case for the near future.
In my view the correct strategy is to have a publisher which can print the proceedings and has also a digital library. Actually this was the TC6 recommendation to IFIP concerning the future publisher.
Best regards
Augusto
-----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-admin@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-admin@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Lyman Chapin Sent: quarta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2002 00:09 To: Otto Spaniol Cc: ifip-tc6@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: [ifip-tc6] IFIP publications
Otto,
I agree with Guy - it doesn't matter what happens to any of the various print publishers, because the printed books are irrelevant. IFIP and TC6 must move very quickly in the direction of on-line publication; if they do not, they will also become irrelevant.
- Lyman
At 4:48 PM +0100 11/5/02, Otto Spaniol wrote:
Dear all,
a major topic for all our meetings has been (and will probably remain to be for a long time) the publication strategy of IFIP and of IFIP-TC6: Kluwer or Springer or IEEE or ....
Yesterday I got the following information: a. Springer will probably be sold to a competitor, maybe to Elsevier (and Elsevier was even more expensive as former IFIP publisher than Kluwer has ever been). b. Kluwer will probably also been sold
- either to a competitor in the same segment who would then close down the rival
- or to another company whose intentions were not really known.
For the moment being it seems that IFIP is in a severe trouble with the new publication contract. And to my opinion TC6 should also not be too much restricted to Springer as its only publisher since .... (see above).
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