Chris Rowley writes: > For Micorosoft it would appear to be a major step towards a more > civilised approach to the world ... except that they maybe see it as > pulling Elsevier into their view of the future? neither. it means they both want to `own' science and sell us back our own work > > but the Microsoft/Elsevier/SGML > > bandwagon is, I would argue, rather more wide-ranging. > > But is it as useful to the research physicists? (I have no idea.) if their stuff gets in there, yes; Science Direct is as good or better than xxx, isnt it? > In what units: are Elsevier prepared to reveal their data on such things? well, we publish (say) 1200 journals, at (say) an average of 50 articles a year, so say 6000 articles a year? 10000? is that a lot? sebastian