Re: HPS and the internet

[Bruce Busby <bbusby@umich.edu>]

On Tue, 16 May 1995, Dr. Marvin Goldman wrote:

> 
> significant use electronic media for the benefit of our members.  It is
> clear that there are issues of intellectual property rights, concerns over
> the domains of our Journal and Newsletter and other issues with technical,
> financial and legal implications.  Also the simple issue of avoiding
> unnecessary duplication or conflict with other groups.  And the list goes
> on.

With all due respect, I can only say that information should belong to 
all, and not be bogged down in legal issues, and should not be for sale. 
I have always stated that something on the internet is as open to copying 
as something in a library, just accessible to millions of people. If 
we have journals in libraries, then why not on the net? Hopefully not 
because of the $'s they pay for it. But I am pretty ignorant of legal 
issues, and actually glad of it. 

My son being in high school, has a information and technology class, 
where they are learning how to use the internet, computers, ect. In the 
past few months of running the WWW site, I have gotten many requests from 
highschool age people who are using the internet as a resource, and 
it will only get more used as time goes on.

The Journal of Radiobiology and the Journal of Radiation Research already 
have indexes (indicies?) on line. If anyone would like to check them out, 
thier URLs are:

http://www.science.ubc.ca/departments/physics/radbio/journal.html
http://www.whitlock.com/kcj/science/radres/radres.htm

Also, anyone who would like to read a good book, try one of the 1800 at:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html

-Bruce Busby