Other Rio players include the tiny 1 gigabyte hard disk unit the Rio Nitrus and a 256MB model the Chiba, which, unusually for MP3 players, is compatible with Apple Macs running OS X. www.rioaudio.com Legal change Electronic journals Electronic publications, including selected web-based content and material on CD-ROM, will now be preserved systematically following a change in the law.
Students will also have access to an online library of electronic journals and books.
It has launched seven widely respected electronic journals since its foundation in 2000.
In 2003, the Program of Access to Electronic Information (PAIe) was created to systematise the access to electronic journals.
But now the nation's creativity extends to Web sites, electronic journals and magazines, and CD-ROM's of every sort.
THE libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are earnestly bookish (2.6 million volumes and 17,000 journals) but increasingly digital (275 databases and 3,800 electronic journals).
Publishers sell access to large bundles of electronic journals for a price based on what colleges used to pay for paper ones.
"The present is that you read electronic information driven by our investment to create electronic journals, to digitise their archive, to structure and tag content and to surface it throughout the internet has made this improvement in efficiency possible".
It has made about 860,500 images, video clips, sound files, electronic journals and other resources available online, but the images of artworks are all low resolution — again, to discourage commercial use.
The effort will also include a crackdown on piracy of electronic journals, more effective rules for halting Internet piracy, and a crackdown on landlords who rent space to counterfeiters of products like footwear and apparel.
In his 1995 book, "Being Digital," Nicholas Negroponte, the head of M.I.T.'s Media Lab, suggests that daily newspapers may soon be extinct, being replaced by electronic journals tailored to the tastes of individual readers--a medium he calls the Daily Me.
