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The University of Pennsylvania's Online Computing Magazine

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[Printout | About | Archives | Search ] December 1995 - Volume 12:3 ON THE COVER: This mid-nineteenth century pressman operating a pedal-powered Ruggles Patent printing press represented the state of the art in publishing technology for his day. F E A T U R E S Scientific journals for the Internet age SEAS experiments with a new kind of journal. By Gregory C. Farrington and Helen Anderson New media at Penn ISC support for multimedia at Penn. By John MacDermott Penn's new online directory Introduction to the updated and expanded online directory. By Dawn C. Clarke Dialog at the Penn Libraries Experimental science and engineering databases. By Gretchen Sneff and Brian Simboli D E P A R T M E N T S Q&A Random bits ISC: Keeping in touch