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PublishI&I Downloads 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 How to PublishI&I
2.5MB 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.
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