December 15, 2000

Electronic Publishing: a 'Whether' Report

By KATE WITTENBERG

At each stage of the development of electronic publishing, we have had new questions. First it was: Can we transform a traditional scholarly publishing operation into an effective system for digital communications? Then: Can we afford the cost? Today, we need to begin answering a new question: How do we evaluate what we've done so far? To that question, we have few answers.

At Columbia University, we have experimented with digital publishing for five years. We have two prizewinning

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