The Editor's page

Welcome to this site which has been expanded for 2012 by the addition of a very comprehensive basic Guide to document management and a new listing of 45 national and international standards relating to the technology.

I hope that experts on both the user and supplier side of the industry will visit the Guide and make suggestions for additions or improvements. We can not offer payment for such contributions but will publish an acknowledgement if requested. In this way we hope to create the definitive impartial guide to document management in the UK. If that sounds ambitious, we would point to our Guide to COM, Guide to Readers and Reader-Printers and the Micrographics Year Book - all of which became standard reference works.

Because we make no charge for basic entries, and access to this site is entirely free, the cost of  visiting supplier websites and comparing the content to detect items requiring update in the commercial sections of this site falls entirely on us. Since we now include nearly 900 suppliers and many thousands of products and services, we have reluctantly decided that we must discontinue frequent automatic update of basic entries but will continue regular visits to sites relating to all companies sponsoring this site.

From now on,  we will prepare and index initial entries for  all relevant suppliers without charge and all companies will continue to be entitled to free updates, but non-sponsors should no longer rely on our visiting their sites to see if any changes are needed. Once we are notified of a necessary amendment or addition we can usually include it within 48 hours - often less -  but we do need to be informed whenever an address has changed, a new product has been introduced or a new service is available.

The simplest solution is for suppliers to treat www.ggbaker.com as a free extension to their marketing programme - ensuring that we receive all press releases and details of product launches so that we can extract what is needed to update their entries.

Companies seldom make any announcement when a product or service is no longer available -  this can result in our listing obsolete information. Users sometimes detect an error of this kind and e-mail us with details. This is much appreciated as it enables us to keep the content as accurate as possible.

All editorial activity is still controlled from our offices in Mallorca. We  changed our  e-mail address last year and would ask you to use gerald@ggbaker.co.uk for all future communications concerning editorial content.

If you are a supplier and would like to become a sponsor from £48 per annum please see more details under Advertising Rates or contact Claire Baker at our UK offices. Her e-mail address is cjb@atlas.co.uk.