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From: stgprao@sugarland.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: Unocal Corporation
Date: 21 Sep 1996 23:34:44 GMT
Message-ID: <521u2k$12u@news.unocal.com>

In article <51v9as$g95@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
Eugene Miya <eugene@cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>Hugh LaMaster wrote:
>>> The only thing wrong with it, is, if you are an academic,
>>> Web pages are not likely to get you tenure in the near future.
>
>I asked one of our industrial partners when they expect to see the first
>PhD dissertation in html (or SGML): they doubted it (and this from one
>of the most prestigous universities in the country).  We'll see.

My former research group at Stanford has been putting them on the net
for years.  Html/sgml doesn't facilitate formulas well,
so they are using adobe acrobat.  sepwww.stanford.edu

On the other hand, Stanford still requires print archival copies
in the library on 100-year paper.

