August 13, 1999

Columbia U. Sets Up a New-Media Unit Devoted to Scholarly Publishing

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Columbia University plans to create a new publishing entity -- one it says will be uniquely suited to the needs of the Internet -- by bringing scholarly publishers, librarians, and technologists from around its campus together in a New Media Center for Electronic Publishing.

The university has experimented with on-line publishing for the past five years, says Kate Wittenberg, editor in chief of the Columbia University Press. But

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