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versions of its print journals. ASM has announced that the full text of all 10 of its scientific journals will be available
online before the end of 1998.

Electronic Distributed Printing

To date, distributed printing has been done by putting together hardcopy selections to create a new, personalized
custom document. Selections can be made from books, journals, or printouts of personally written text. Permission
must usually be obtained from the copyright owners of the material being used (see Chapter 31).

The electronic version of distributed printing differs from the standard process. In this rapidly developing version, the
process is based on selecting articles, reports, or chapters from the vast amount of data stored in electronic databases.
When someone wants to put a new compilation of materials together, he or she selects from material stored in the
database. When the selection of articles and illustrations has been made, and the number of copies requested, the
collection is printed and bound for distribution as a "book." Writers and publishers now even speak of "virtual"
documents that do not exist physically but only as electronically linked files.

One of the large databases currently under development is CUPID, the Consortium for University Printing and
Information Distribution. The Consortium's academic participants include Cornell, the initial developer; Harvard;
Princeton; and other institutions. The commercial members of the Consortium include Xerox and Kodak. Although
this electronic storage system is still in the early stages of its development, future plans include working with
publishers who wish to participate by including some of their copyrighted material.

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