> One small question: many articles are published ahead of print. Do they > have an ISBN? Or is the ISBN available only after publishing in written > format? Does anyone know more exactly how this EPUB works?
from talking to the eprints guy at my former university, I understood that it boils down to the following: - a publication is any written work that is available to the public. You may argue about the poster put up in your neighbourhood, but anything freely available via http is definitely published. If you delete your website, it has a status similar to a book out of print. This has *nothing* do to with academic merit, obviously, but think of glossy magazines... - ISBN and ISSN numbers are a system between publishing houses, stockists and book shops to uniquely identify things to be sold. ISBN numbers are allocated to publishing houses in bulk, for a minor fee. Your university library probably has an allocation and could provide you with a number, only that they might be concerned about an efficient procedure regarding requests from book shops if they're not handling the printing etc themselves. Things that have an ISBN number are certainly published, but it would be mistaken to infer the opposite regarding works that do not. You can put an ISBN number on a PDF you put up on your website, but it makes little sense Florian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
