Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 13:59:02 05/27/00
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It is sad to see ICCA slowly sliding into extinction, but that's the way much of traditional academic publishing is going nowdays. It is much quicker, easier and cheaper to get the preprints from the web and email (from authors or archives) than to wait 3 months for a paper copy. It is also easier to keep articles on the hard disk than on the shelves. (Until couple years ago I used to go on vacations dragging 30 pounds of books and chess computers. Now I take a 3 pund laptop and a few CDs. I get papers, books and chess programs in the same pacakge, and kids get their games.) They basically need to switch to electronic publishing, like the Los Alamos archives (for physics and math). You can't beat that in terms of speed, price and volume. That way they could publish ten times as much and distribute it free of charge. Membership charge could come from advertising and voluntary contributions (if any us really needed, since an academic with interest in CC could use his department's web site to place papers on-line, and some volunteer work would be needed to place the articles there and discard the outright junk). A token contribution (say $5-$10) via online credit card would suffice to support greatly decreased costs in any case. In principle, a place like CCC could run such an archive, at no cost to the members, just as it does the message board. In fact this transiency of content and the sparseness of the high quality material is the main current drawback of the CCC board. A good searchable archive of higher quality work (in PS, PDF & HTML formats) as an add-on would take care of research publishing in this field and would increase greatly the value of the CCC. I am sure there would be no shortage of volunteers for work needed to keep it up and organized.
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