Implementation of the Biological Bulletin - Marine Models Electronic Record (BB-MMER), an Electronic Journal at the Marine Biological Laboratory

《生物公报》是马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔海洋生物实验室出版的一份有97年历史的综合性期刊，将与海洋生物实验室信息系统司合作制作一份电子版：《生物公报海洋模式电子记录》。 这本通过万维网发行的新杂志将发表对基础生物学和生物医学研究有用的非哺乳动物海洋生物的实用信息。 海洋生物及其制备物作为实验模型已经有世纪之久，它们的使用导致了许多基础性发现，特别是在发育生物学、神经生物学和细胞生理学方面。 不幸的是，由于篇幅的限制，无论是收集、维持和培养这些生物体的细节，还是在实验科学中使用它们所必需的详细方案、配方和参考书目，都没有在传统期刊上发表。 因此，这些发现背后的细节已经丢失，或者必须在不同的实验室重新发现。 BB-MMER将以两种方式解决这个问题：作为一个传统的学术期刊;作为一个新的电子数据库，供世界各地的科学家使用。 首先，像它的硬拷贝表亲一样，BB-MMER将征求和接受投稿，这些投稿将由《生物学通报》的稳定的裁判进行审查。 因此，BB-MMER接受出版和分发的所有论文都将是真实的、可引用的期刊文章。 与此同时，MBL信息系统司的工作人员将使用Mosaic环境为期刊开发超文本链接和数据管理功能。 每个BB-MMER贡献将分层呈现：即，首先是包含摘要和目录的标题页;然后（可选）是论文的主体，最后（可选）是附录中的分步实验室方案和其他详细材料。 上级插图将提供彩色或黑白白色，视频片段将最终包括在内。 电子出版期刊可以提高索引，检索和多种用途。 此外，电子出版使作者能够修改或更新以前出版的作品。 但是，电子环境所带来的联系和管理特点增加了大部分价值。 因此，BB-MMER的用户不仅能够获得关于大量选择的模式生物及其组织制备物的全面信息，而且还能够比较来自许多不同论文的协议、配方、制备物或其他信息单元。 随着时间的推移，随着数据库的规模和复杂性的增加，这种工具将变得更加富有成效。

The Biological Bulletin, an eclectic, 97-year-old journal published by the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, will collaborate with the Information Systems Division of the MBL to produce an electronic companion: the Biological Bulletin Marine Models Electronic Record (BB-- MMER). This new journal, distributed via the World Wide Web, will publish practical information about nonmammalian marine organisms that are useful in basic biological and biomedical research. Marine organisms and the preparations made from them have served as experimental models for more than a century, and their use has led to many fundamental discoveries, particularly in developmental biology, neurobiology, and cellular physiology. Unfortunately, neither the particulars of collecting, maintaining, and culturing these organisms, nor the detailed protocols, recipes, and bibliographies essential to their use in experimental science, are published in traditional journals due to limitations of space. Thus the details that underlie the findings are lost, or must be rediscovered in different laboratories. The BB--MMER will approach this problem in two ways: as a traditional scholarly journal; and as a novel electronic database available to scientists everywhere in the world. First, like its hard-copy cousin, the BB--MMER will solicit and accept contributions, and these will be reviewed by the Biological Bulletin's stable of referees. All papers accepted for publication and distributed by the BB--MMER will therefore be genuine, citable journal articles. Concurrently, the staff of the MBL's Information Systems Division will use the Mosaic environment to develop hypertext linkage and data management features for the journal. Each BB--MMER contribution will be presented hierarchically: i.e., first the title page containing an abstract and a table of contents; then (by option) the body of the paper, and finally (by option) step-by-step laboratory protocols and other detailed materials in appendices. Superior illustrations will be provided in color or black-and-white, and video segments will be included eventually. Publishing a journal electronically can improve indexing, retrieval, and multiple use. Moreover, electronic publishing enables authors to modify or upgrade previously published work. But most value is added by the linkage and management features that are made possible by the electronic environment. Thus, users of the BB--MMER will not only be able to obtain comprehensive information about a large selection of model organisms and their tissue preparations, but also to compare protocols, recipes, preparations, or other units of information called from many different papers. And this facility will become more fruitful with time, as the size and complexity of the database increases.