Frederick Maltz
In the Winter ‘99 issue of the newsletter, Glen Williams stated our goal to take the newsletter totally electronic. Beginning with the Winter 2000 issue, the Oceanic Engineering Society Newsletter will be distributed either via an electronic mail attachment or Internet access. The next two issues of the newsletter, Summer and Fall, will be the last produced in the current hardcopy form.
Initially, we will send an email notice upon availability of each new issue on the Web. We will need your email address as we do not have valid email addresses for many members. Your email should be addressed to:
In the ‘Subject’ of your email please place the following:
EMAIL:email_address
For example, if your email is f.maltz@ieee.org, the ‘Subject’ field would be:
We are going to keep the Web version of the newsletter in both PDF and HTML formats with enhancements. Future PDF versions will include a table of contents, and the HTML version will be expanded to include multimedia and interactive content. Once the bulk of member email addresses have been received and a procedure established, the newsletter will be distributed via an electronic mail attachment along with the Web availability notice. I will keep you posted on future procedures for subscribing and unsubscribing.
At the last Panel of Editor’s meeting in Piscataway, New Jersey, Anthony Durniak, presented some ideas about IEEE publishing for the year 2000 and beyond.
Some of the benefits he indicated are faster delivery than print, more rapid publication and frequent updates. In addition, using the new capabilities, it will be possible to search/sort by interest, provide interactive content with links to related documents and multimedia. Other benefits include convenience and cost effectiveness. He also indicated that the IEEE is in the process of building an electronic publishing infrastructure, including a single Web access point for all material published by IEEE. This includes Transactions and Journals, Magazines, Conference Proceedings, and Standards.
To learn more about the future of IEEE publishing, you can access the OES Web Site at http://auv.tamu.edu/oes/ for updates as well as other important information. The following article, which was sent to me by Glen Williams, describes some other IEEE publishing initiatives that will be taking place very soon.
Frederick Maltz
OES Newsletter Editor
The Oceanic Engineering Society has become a member of the IEEE OpeRA electronic publishing project effective immediately. The 1999 issues of the Journal of Oceanic Engineering have been placed in the OpeRA database for electronic access via the WWWeb to all OES members. In 2000, the IEEE will roll out EPIC, the next generation of its electronic publishing project. EPIC will contain all of the Journals and Transactions of each of the Societies in SGML tagged format at first, with the Conference Proceedings in PDF format to follow. EPIC will basically replace OpeRA, so that access to the OES Journal should be continuous.
The Journals on OpeRA are stored in PDF format, so users must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader integrated with their browser. To get to OpeRA and the electronic Journal of the OES:. Via either the Explorer or Netscape, go to http://opera.ieee.org. Register, as necessary, using your IEEE Member number, and Search/Browse.
Please send your evaluation and other feedback on the OpeRA system to me at g.williams@ieee.org
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