Subject: Re: Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals
Frank Norman (fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk)
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:59:07 +0100
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:59:07 +0100 From: Frank Norman <fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals In-Reply-To: <001301bea079$47213c40$64f0abc3@default> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Message-Id: <0FBX00COR4XQAT@ns2.nimr.mrc.ac.uk>
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Anthony Watkinson <anthony.watkinson@BTinternet.com> wrote:
>
> It is very encouraging to learn that the opportunities represented by the
> extra functionalities available on the Internet are being taken up by some
> communities but there are still significant barriers to the use by authors
> of multimedia.
Yes, I do very much agree. I suspect that we will have to wait until
today's generation of (multimedia-literate) students become authors.
Perhaps we'll have to wait until they become the editors before
multimedia is really common in scholarly articles. The limits are set
by the people using the technology not the technology itself!
Frank Norman National Institute for Medical Research
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London NW7 1AA, UK
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