Goals of EPIC
Re-think the categories of traditional print publications (books, journals, news, reference sources, research reports, etc.)
Integrate the use of digital technology in the creation of scholarly resources
Develop Content in response to scholarsí needs
Develop new organizations and staff
Notes:
In fulfilling our mandate to respond to the scholarsí needs and provide new models, we have found that our publications break down traditional categories of print publishing because our users do not think or work within those categories. By creating an editorial and technical infrastructure that allows for exploration across content categories (linking a research article to a dataset supporting its findings, to a policy debate on the topic, for example, we are responding directly to researchersí needs to move across many different kinds of sources.
In these publications, we are not simply digitizing print, but using and integrating technology at a deeper level, so that it always enriches both content and functionality.