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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