The Electronic Publishing Centre (EPC)

1. General Access to the EPC
   
2. Hours and Location
   
3. Software in the EPC
   
4. Software Use at the Electronic Publishing Centre
   
5. Printing in the EPC
   
6. Rules and Considerations
   
7. The Idea Behind the EPC
   
8. What does the EPC offer?
   

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General Access to the EPC

The Electronic Publishing Centre is intended to provide CHASS affiliated faculty, staff, and graduate students at the University of Toronto with every possible assistance for electronic publishing. The primary focus of activities is the World Wide Web. It consists of a small computer lab providing access to Macintosh System OS9 and Windows '95 Operating Systems, desktop scanners (Windows only), and a publication quality laser printer. There a number of publishing and editing tools such as Omnipage (text scanning with OCR), HP Deskscan (image scanning), Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office and Corel WordPerfect. HTML Tools are also available. Note: All software is licenced to CHASS. Unlicenced software is not allowed to be installed.

Faculty, staff, and graduate students from departments in the humanities and social sciences who wish to pursue electronic publication further should contact the CHASS Information Officer, at 978-2535.

Hours and Location

The Electronic Publishing Centre (EPC), adjacent to the graduate lab on the 14th Floor of Robarts Library, offers three Pentium computers (two of which are connected to scanners), and a Power Macintosh which are available, by appointment, during regular working hours (Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). CHASS users may reserve any of the three computers for a minimum of one hour up to a maximum of eight hours, on non-successive days.

Graduate Lab Hardware and Software

Hardware	Windows Software	Macintosh Software
(3) PIII PC's, (1) Power Mac 64MB ram CDROM Miscellaneous: 15" VGA Monitors 1 HP Laser 4050TN printer	Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Corel Office 2000 Microsoft Office 6 TACT 2.1 Netscape 4 Adobe Acrobat 3 (full) WS-FTP StorySpace DreamWeaver (PC #7) Aladdin Expander Command Antivirus HTML Tools E-Mail Paintshop Pro 5.01 Adobe Photoshop 4.0 Omni Page Pro HP DeskScan	System 9 Netscape Fetch FTP NCSA Telnet AOL Press Microsoft Word 98 Claris Works Adobe Pagemaker

Software Use at the Electronic Publishing Centre

• The EPC computers are loaded with software licenced to the CHASS facility.
• UNLICENCED SOFTWARE IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE PUT ON THE COMPUTERS.
• The hard drives of the computers are "cleaned" on a monthly basis.
• If you wish to load software on a computer, please contact: labtech@chass.utoronto.ca Phone: 978-3974
• You must show your software licence to us (and leave a copy of it if you are leaving software on the system for a certain length of time).
• If the software you are loading is freeware, we require a written statement to that effect.
• A record will be kept of the length of time you specify the software to be active, otherwise it is deleted on a monthly basis.

Printing in the EPC

The Electronic Publishing Centre makes its printing facilities available for a modest cost. Any charging is used to maintain the equipment and purchase supplies required to provide this service.

While our laser printer regularly produces very good output, the charges (and thus resources) that are being applied are more appropriate for draft quality output. Users with specialized or very high quality output demands may wish to go to alternate sources for their final publication output.

Note: CHASS supplies 20 lb. bond paper which is thesis quality.

Rules and Considerations

• Do not change the configurations on these computers, please ask for assistance.
• If you bring your own CD-ROM to use, please be reminded that due to licencing agreements, it is illegal to copy CD-ROMs to diskettes. Games, or entertainment media are not allowed.
• Please do not remove manuals or instruction sheets from the facility; return manuals to the main CHASS Office.
• Although there are four workstations in the Publishing Room (one Mac, three Windows '95), there is only one LaserJet printer, so assuming there are four users booked in the room, each must allow for one person to print while the others continue editing work until it is free for them to print.
• You are responsible for knowing whether the material you are scanning is copyrighted or not.
• Thank-you for your courtesy

The Idea Behind the EPC

• provide support for a low-cost alternative to conventional academic publishing where this is threatened by escalating costs and diminishing sources of income;
• assist in launching new publications directly in electronic form and in making best use of the electronic medium to carry forth scholarly and pedagogical objectives at Toronto;
• offer an effective means for distributing information about conventional academic publications originating at Toronto, like tables of contents of current issues and electronic reprints of past issues, so that they may reach and appeal to a wider audience;
• allow the author or editor to develop online adjuncts to print publications, including both tools for managing purchase or subscription, and extensions such as colour images, access to databases, and other uniquely online facilities.

What does the EPC offer?

• a dedicated laboratory containing up-to-date equipment to support online publishing, such as:
• powerful multimedia workstations with large, high-resolution screens and high-speed connection to the Internet;
• software for HTML composition, for optical scanning and character-recognition (OCR), for image-capture, rendering, and manipulation, and for file-transfer and browsing;
• software for format conversion;
• hardware for creating image files from photographs (one black and white scanner, one colour);
• one 1200-dpi laser printer, black-and-white.
• an Internet server providing:
• secure Web space, with work areas for editorial staff to use in preparing material for publication, and with read-only and access-controlled areas for final copies;
• different levels of access to published material; for example, full access for paid subscribers, partial for others, such as to tables of contents, abstracts, and/or old issues;
• tools to maintain subscription lists and means of communicating with subscribers (all of them, to announce a new issue; individuals, to deal with their subscriptions; or other subsets), directly from an editor's "task page";
• links to online format-conversion tools;
• archival and backup tools.