Abstract

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.

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  • I felt tempted to give this article a title that did not sound too stuffy, "My Romance with Arthur" perhaps, after all we are said to "embrace" new technology, and we certainly become dependent on its underlying loyalty and support

  • In the context of our journal it meant taking a well-established system for running the editorial office, and adapting it to run on personal computers

  • ~ecisionasbout suitable software were not the only items on the agenda in 1985, before any of the hardware or software was chosen we had been in close collaboration with our printers about the possibility of coding our text so that when it left the editorial office there would be no more hands-on intervention before galleys are produced

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I felt tempted to give this article a title that did not sound too stuffy, "My Romance with Arthur" perhaps, after all we are said to "embrace" new technology, and we certainly become dependent on its underlying loyalty and support. In the context of publishing a medical journal it means wordprocessors, scanners, modems, computers to run databases, and telefax machines. In the context of our journal it meant taking a well-established system for running the editorial office, and adapting it to run on personal computers.

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