02-21-2013, 11:57 PM
It is great to get easy and cheap, or better still free, access to any archaeological publication off the web as usually academic publications are so expensive but inevitably even if I do find what I am looking for I have to print off a paper copy!
Mike,
As someone who is a university librarian in my day job, and a serials librarian to boot, I implore you to adopt the print and digital model. It will ultimately give the most flexibility and in the (very) long run it is the only real method of preservation. I can go to the shelf in my collection and take down a 300 year old book and read it, who knows if a electronic version will be available in 300 years time from now? I understand your concerns about dead trees and I share them* but if you really want to ensure the best chance at preservation, then distributed paper copies of JRMES in university libraries throughout the world is probably your best bet.
Best,
Lucianus
This was basically the same conclusion reached at an archaeological conference I attended when one lecture was about data storage. Paper was best because the technology changes so rapidly. The Doomsday book project on the anniversary of the original collected masses of data, all of which is now only available to read on one or two historic computers!
Perhaps a daft question but if everyone reads a Kindle how will authors autograph copies?
Graham.
Mike,
As someone who is a university librarian in my day job, and a serials librarian to boot, I implore you to adopt the print and digital model. It will ultimately give the most flexibility and in the (very) long run it is the only real method of preservation. I can go to the shelf in my collection and take down a 300 year old book and read it, who knows if a electronic version will be available in 300 years time from now? I understand your concerns about dead trees and I share them* but if you really want to ensure the best chance at preservation, then distributed paper copies of JRMES in university libraries throughout the world is probably your best bet.
Best,
Lucianus
This was basically the same conclusion reached at an archaeological conference I attended when one lecture was about data storage. Paper was best because the technology changes so rapidly. The Doomsday book project on the anniversary of the original collected masses of data, all of which is now only available to read on one or two historic computers!
Perhaps a daft question but if everyone reads a Kindle how will authors autograph copies?
Graham.
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"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
