Re: Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals


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
Deputy Librarian The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
                             London NW7 1AA, UK
tel 0181 959 3666 ext 2380 email fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk
fax 0181 913 8534 http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank/



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