Nordic Centre of Excellence for Electronic Publishing (NordEP) is one of the three Nordic Centres of Excellence established by NORDINFO. The aim of NordEP is to increase and promote knowledge on electronic publishing and implementations in the field among Nordic publishers, libraries, and information services. The centre is situated at VTT Information Service in Finland.
One of the projects carried out by the centre is a network publishing project "Electronic publishing and dissemination through network" together with some Scandinavian publishers. As a test pilot, one issue of "Fokus på Familien" journal by Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget) was converted to both HTML and Acrobat PDF formats and placed available on the WWW (http://www.vtt.fi/inf/nordep/projects/scup/fokus.htm or http://www.scup.no/journals/fokus/fokus.html). The opinions of the readers of the journal will be surveyed by a questionnaire placed on the same web page as the journal issue.
As an end result of the project practical recommendations about how to reorganize the publishing process for electronic distribution of publications will be composed. A generic, step-by-step guideline on actions needed for producing a network publication will be compiled. * As a part of the project, a list of Nordic online (WWW) journals has already been collected. It is available at URL: http://www.vtt.fi/inf/nordep/projects/webpilot/journals/
Best Regards, Riitta Alkula NordEP Centre, http://www.vtt.fi/inf/nordep/ Home page of the three centres: http://www.nnc.dk/nordelib/
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