Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 09:41:49 -0600
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Subject: Journal of World-Systems Research (online)
 
Hi Folks,
 
        What Chris is proposing sounds like an excellent idea to me.
He makes the point that supplementary sections of articles and research
reports can be included in an online journal, such as full data sets,
that are prohibitively expensive in hardcopy journals.  In the spirit
of getting all we can out the information technology available, I'd
just like to point out that it should be quite possible to enable
such a journal with keyword search capabilities as well.  I suppose
appendices with data sets in articles could either trail the articles
(as they do sometimes in books) or be archived separately (or both)
and that these options carry their own efficiency trade-offs.  That
seems essentially like a data base management question and I'm only
raising it as a case in point that if we're going to begin such a
thing we should be aware of the latitude of available options.  That
means the more brainstorming we can get for this the better (hint,
hint).  Those are my two bytes worth at the moment.
 
Bill Haller
University of Pittsburgh
University Center for Social and Urban Research
                and
Dept. of Sociology