Research Publications Web Page?

Jabagi writes: "Hi, I am computer engineering undergrad. and my department in the university has given me the job of doing a web site that displays its publications in digital format. So I wanted to ask if anybody knows any good [prefereably university-originated] web pages that have a publication for research pages with an easy to use interface. A very good one in my opinion is from MIT. I would also accept any suggestions to what should be included on such a page [for example, which formats do you prefer the documents to be in, what types of information should be present, etc...]"

Organizing Research Texts

[annielaurie]

You could do a lot worse than that page at MIT. It's readable and navigable, and it gets the job done. Things they did particularly right: It's navigable from just about wherever you are. It gives you a clearly delineated path back from where you came. It appears to be all text-based (therefore accessible to all.) It's easily searchable. If they made one mistake it was in not using anchor tags on that first index page to carry the user back to the top area of the page (where the path navigation and left-hand navigation are located).

Although it pains me horribly to say it, I think PDF is a good bet. (And I hope somebody comes up with a viable alternative soon.) I'd pick that, plain HTML, and some other format you decide on that prevails at your institution--whether it be .doc, text, or something else. You want above all to make it useful to the people who need to read it, so let their opinions prevail.

Have fun.