CMJ Editor's Notes

Douglas Keislar Computer Music Journal We are happy to announce that Computer Music Journal is now available in electronic form, starting with the Spring 1999 issue (Volume 23, Number 1). Subscribers to the print version of Computer Music Journal can register for access to the electronic version by filling out the electronic registration form at http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/ereg.html. There is no extra fee for individual subscribers. Upon registering, subscribers will be contacted by MIT Press and given instructions for accessing the electronic version. The electronic version is available as a combination of text and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Abstracts of articles are presented as text and can be viewed within any Web browser. The articles themselves (and, indeed, the entire Journal) are in the PDF format, which permits precise reproduction of the hard-copy Journal's layout, including illustrations. PDF files can be viewed, searched, and printed using a program such as Acrobat Reader, which is downloadable free of charge from http://www.adobe.com. If a Web browser is configured to use a suitable helper application, such as Acrobat Reader, the PDF files can be viewed directly by clicking their links in the browser; otherwise, they can be saved to disk for subsequent viewing. The electronic version is offered through the Electronic Collections Online (ECO) gateway of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Although there is no charge to individual subscribers, OCLC charges institutional subscribers an access fee that allows their communities of users to search the entire ECO database and retrieve citations. Institutional subscribers must submit a signed license agreement (available at http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/inst_license.html) within 90 days of their registration. ECO brings together content from 1,000 journals from 30 different publishers, including Academic, Blackwell, Chapman & Hall, Erlbaum, Johns Hopkins, Kluwer, MIT, and Sage. A nonprofit organization made up of approximately 26,000 member libraries, OCLC is ubiquitous in the American academic library market. The collection currently includes journals in the social sciences, humanities, physical and biological sciences, technology, business, and policy. This is only one of a number of different options available for delivering print materials in electronic form. We expect, as time goes by, to expand the number of venues that carry an electronic version of Computer Music Journal. It is becoming increasingly important to link the full text of journal content with the bibliographic resources that researchers and students use to find material. We expect more opportunities will arise as abstracting and indexing services move to electronic form and begin working with primary publishers, such as MIT Press, to deliver full-text content in addition to citations. As always, we welcome your feedback about the new electronic version or any other matters concerning Computer Music Journal.

	Vol. 23 Issue 2 Editor's Notes	CMJ Library >
	New Electronic Version of Computer Music Journal
	Douglas Keislar Computer Music Journal We are happy to announce that Computer Music Journal is now available in electronic form, starting with the Spring 1999 issue (Volume 23, Number 1). Subscribers to the print version of Computer Music Journal can register for access to the electronic version by filling out the electronic registration form at http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/ereg.html. There is no extra fee for individual subscribers. Upon registering, subscribers will be contacted by MIT Press and given instructions for accessing the electronic version. The electronic version is available as a combination of text and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Abstracts of articles are presented as text and can be viewed within any Web browser. The articles themselves (and, indeed, the entire Journal) are in the PDF format, which permits precise reproduction of the hard-copy Journal's layout, including illustrations. PDF files can be viewed, searched, and printed using a program such as Acrobat Reader, which is downloadable free of charge from http://www.adobe.com. If a Web browser is configured to use a suitable helper application, such as Acrobat Reader, the PDF files can be viewed directly by clicking their links in the browser; otherwise, they can be saved to disk for subsequent viewing. The electronic version is offered through the Electronic Collections Online (ECO) gateway of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Although there is no charge to individual subscribers, OCLC charges institutional subscribers an access fee that allows their communities of users to search the entire ECO database and retrieve citations. Institutional subscribers must submit a signed license agreement (available at http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/inst_license.html) within 90 days of their registration. ECO brings together content from 1,000 journals from 30 different publishers, including Academic, Blackwell, Chapman & Hall, Erlbaum, Johns Hopkins, Kluwer, MIT, and Sage. A nonprofit organization made up of approximately 26,000 member libraries, OCLC is ubiquitous in the American academic library market. The collection currently includes journals in the social sciences, humanities, physical and biological sciences, technology, business, and policy. This is only one of a number of different options available for delivering print materials in electronic form. We expect, as time goes by, to expand the number of venues that carry an electronic version of Computer Music Journal. It is becoming increasingly important to link the full text of journal content with the bibliographic resources that researchers and students use to find material. We expect more opportunities will arise as abstracting and indexing services move to electronic form and begin working with primary publishers, such as MIT Press, to deliver full-text content in addition to citations. As always, we welcome your feedback about the new electronic version or any other matters concerning Computer Music Journal.