Electronic Poster Sessions

[TomDeVrie@xxxxxxx]

Rather than focusing only on electronic journals:

How about WEB-based electronic poster sessions?  Imagine all of the poster
sessions from GSA or AGU meetings posted to the WEB.  Each poster could
consist of 4 pages - a too-small-to-read-well overall view with the title,
and 3 close-up views with fully legible figures, photos, and captions.

Related posters could be linked.  Schedules could be established for chat
areas, so that authors could communicate with remote viewers.

Rather than an audience of 3000 that can make it to San Francisco or
wherever, the posters could have an international audience of 10,000s.

Since WEB-page material can easily be downloaded, some presenters might be
concerned about security of information prior to publication in a regular
journal.