nd Paul Ginsparg (Garson, 1994).[12] PERL stands for Practical Extraction and Resource Language. Information about the language is available from the WWW page Perl Resources at http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~rseymour/perl/ or from the page Perl Information and Pointers at http://ajs.com/perl/. The book Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz (1993) is an excellent and easy to understand introduction to the language. [13] Many older documents on the Internet retain their original ASCII formatting. However this is becoming less of a problem since the new generation of WWW browsers like Mosaic, WebBrowser, and Netscape, satisfactorily format these plain document for printing. [14] The EJS maintains a collection of search engines at http://olympus.lang.arts.ualberta.ca:8010/resource.htm. Probably the best search engine available is the The Open Text Index at http://www.opentext.com:8080/ [15] Indeed, if the Electronic Text initiative at the University of Virginia Library is any indication, it will be libraries and librarians that will be at the cutting edge of electronic publication. This is perhaps appropriate in that libraries have been the traditional repository for textual material. [16] The ancillary benefits emerge when the EJS is not dependent on one institution. When the EJS exists at the University of Alberta, McMaster university, and perhaps a half dozen other international cites, it is much more difficult for any one institution to exert pre-emptive authority on the journal. In this way we hope to "institutionalize" a structure that is more responsive to the needs of the academic community by being less sensitive to administrative and bureaucratic requirements. Of course, this problematizes institutional funding. We are still evaluating whether the trade of is worthwhile.[17] RTF stands for Rich Text Format and is a wordprocessor format used by microsoft to increase the mobility of documents between different platforms and different environm...
