Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 09:04:11 -0500 (EST)
From: John McCleary <mccleary@vassar.edu>
Subject: a journal idea

Dear Don,
With all the discussion of electronic publishing,
I thought you might like to distribute the appended
message concerning an effort by some chemists.
John

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Dear Scientists,
Cindy Dubinski forwarded this to me from a Document Delivery list.   The
journal may be of interest to Chemists but I'm sending it to all in case
anyone is in a similar editorial board policy making position or cares to
lobby an association publications board to allow such easy transfer of
information.  For your information, most electronic journal licenses
preclude any ILL.  As more libraries move to the electronic format getting
articles via ILL may become difficult/impossible unless more licenses
recognise the need for reasonable ILL.

Flora
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>I am a member of the editorial board of a new peer reviewed chemistry
>journal, the Internet Journal of Chemistry (IJC) (url:
>http://www.ijc.com)
>which is an all electronic journal. (That is, there is no print version of
>this journal.)
>
>The IJC started up in January and has "published" little over 2 dozen
>manuscripts to date.  For 1998 the journal will be free.  Besides having
>an unusual copyright policy (the IJC requires only a licence to publish
>from the author(s), not a copyright transfer (see below), the IJC needs to
>develop a "ILL" (I put it in quotes since I am not sure it physcially means
>anything in this environment) policy.
>
>[The IJC copyright policy is: Upon acceptance of the article, the authors
>will complete the IJC License Agreement. In this agreement, the authors
>license the article for commercial redistribution to to the Internet
>Journal of Chemistry. Authors will receive a renumeration of US$10.00
>for this right. Authors will retain non-commercial rights to the article.
>This allows authors to redistribute their article at no charge. Authors
>also retain the copyright to their article. The official, accepted
>version of the article will always be served from the IJC web site.]
>
>Since members of this list and others have had concern about policies,
>contracts, and licenses with respect to electronic versions of journals,
>I would be curious and interested in what members of the list would
>propose for the IJC policy in this area - how to provide a copy of an
>artcile if you (or your library) is not a subscriber to the journal.
>Since the IJC has no baggage or history to carry into this matter, your input
>to the publisher (i.e,, the financial backer) of this journal would be
>greatly appreciated (as least by the editorial board).
>
>Please address your comments to me (srheller@gig.usda.gov).
>
>
>Thank you.
>
>Steve Heller
>
>Steve Heller, NIST
>820 Diamond Avenue, Room 101
>Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA
>Phone: 301-975-3338    FAX: 301-926-0416
>E-mail:  srheller@gig.usda.gov
>WWW:     www.hellers.com/~steve
>