`Electronic Publishing' -- Practice and Experience

Brailsford, David F.; Evans, David R.; Granger, Geeti

Abstract

Electronic Publishing -- Origination, Dissemination and Design (EP-odd) is an academic journal which publishes refereed papers in the subject area of electronic publishing. The authors of the present paper are, respectively, editor-in-chief, system software consultant and senior
production manager for the journal. EP-odd's policy is that editors, authors, referees and production staff will work closely together using electronic mail. Authors are also encouraged to originate their
papers using one of the approved text-processing packages together with the appropriate set of macros which enforce the layout style for the journal. This same software will then be used by the
publisher in the production phase. Our experiences with these strategies are presented, and two recently developed suites of software are described: one of these makes the macro sets available over
electronic mail and the other automates the flow of papers through the refereeing process. The decision to produce EP-odd in this way means that the publisher has to adopt production procedures
which differ markedly from those employed for a conventional journal.

Citation

Brailsford, D. F., Evans, D. R., & Granger, G. (1990). `Electronic Publishing' -- Practice and Experience. In R. Furuta (Ed.),

• Conference Name: International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography (EP90)
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1990
• Deposit Date: Dec 5, 2005
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 9, 2007
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: journal production, computer aided refereeing system, remote file access, PostScript, PDF
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1025146