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PublishI&I runs on MS Access, i.e. you need MS Access installed on your system for this software to work.

Free Software

PublishI&I,00.mdb for MS Access 2000, 1.2MB

PublishI&I,97.mdb for MS Access 97, 0.8MB

Documentation

Introducing PublishI&I 0.25MB

A Visualization of PublishI&I (MS Access) for the Non-Technically Minded 0.8MB 
(This file is large due to graphics; not length.)

How to PublishI&I 2.5MB 
(This file is large due to graphics; not length.)

PublishI&I Quik Ref Guide 0.25MB

 

 

Introducing PublishI&I

Welcome to PublishI&I the all-in-one solution to your note taking, resource management, and paper writing needs.

 If you think you spend too long formatting references, regularly lose track of old quotes and notes, or are overwhelmed with resources, this is probably be the software solution for you.

 The motivation to develop PublishI&I came out of a fascinating year I spent studying on the Masters in Open and Distance Education at the Open University in the UK. During the online course we were required to write 5 papers for assessment. PublishI&I is a response to the challenges I experienced but didn’t have the time to deal with.

 The development has also been influenced by the work of the French postmodern philosopher, Lyotard. In 1979 he described how when a state of near perfect information is reached, (where all known information will be available to any expert over the Internet), the value we place on knowledge, it’s transmission and creation will change. Whether this state has been or will be reached is obviously contestable, however in the words of one set of commentators so far Lyotard’s other predictions have proved “disturbingly accurate” (Lankshear et al. 2002, p. 23). PublishI&I is one of a range of tools and techniques I am developing, working under the premise that Lyotard is correct.

 Through my work as a translator of academic papers from Japanese to English and through consultations with experienced academics as to what their needs are; I hope to have created an easy-to-use tool that will help not only those of you who, like me, struggle a bit with distance education and want to make greater use of online resources, but also the seasoned academic who needs a permanent resource management solution.

 PublishI&I is designed for students, educators and researchers.

 PublishI&I can be used as a resource database; an electronic notebook; a bibliographic database; a paper drafting tool; a reference formatting tool or any combination of these.

 Over a LAN PublishI&I can also be easily used by multiple users for team projects; or by one user across multiple CPUs (small-scale parallel processing) for net-to-net interrogation of on-line resources.

 PublishI&I: a double win

MS Access is often left unused, or even uninstalled, because it is not easy to get started in. By using PublishI&I you will not only gain the advantage of having a powerful and easy-to-use tool at your fingertips, but also you will gain an extremely useful insight into how Access, and relational database applications generally, work. This is useful for two reasons:

 Firstly, most of the electronically stored data in the world is on relational databases, and they are increasingly appearing in our work places. PublishI&I is a microcosm of these larger systems. Understanding it will help you communicate more effectively with IT personnel and achieve your objectives.

 Secondly, you will know what is possible in Access and have example of how to achieve it readily available in the open “source code”. With a little imagination, you will be in a good position to create a database of your own. I use quotation marks on “source code” because most of what makes PublishI&I tick is just simple property setting, a few SQL queries and a little Boolean logic; nothing out of your reach. Once you are familiar with how the software works you can simply open it up in design view and copy the bits you need to build an application of your own. (When you do this, be sure to experiment on a copy, not your original database.)

  PublishI&I is accompanied by 4 release documents:

This one, Introducing PublishI&I,

A Visualization of PublishI&I (MS Access) for the Non-Technically Minded,

How to use PublishI&I,

And the Quik Ref Guide

 PublishI&I is freeware. If you like it, pass it on.

The minimum requirements:

Hardware: 128 MB of memory, 125 MHz Pentium Chip and 4 MB of hard disk space.

System: Microsoft Windows 98 and Microsoft Access 2000

PublishI&I is the intellectual property of me, Nick Russell. I am quite happy for anyone to try and improve on what I have developed (I will even give advice, if you want it); however, you cannot copy this and try to make money out of it without my permission.

Thanks to all the cool people on H805 cohort 2002, everybody at IET8, and all the students at the Open University who gave me feedback, and support; my super cool wife, Kazue; the girls, Iry and Emily; Mum and Dad for the proof reading; and sisters, Ali and Kate.

(All PublishI&I documentation is contained as searchable records within PublishI&I.)

References

Lankshear, C., Peters, M., and Knobel, M. (2002) Information Knowledge and Learning, in Lea, M.R. & Nicoll, K. (eds) Distributed Learning: Social and Cultural Approaches to Practice, pp.16-37 Routledge Falmer, London.

Lyotard, J-F. (1984) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.