Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide
(archival resource, no longer maintained)
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Academic issues: the nature of scholarly publishing
The advent of the electronic journal coincides with a perceived crisis in academia involving the relationship of publication to promotion and tenure. At issue is the rising cost of research publication and the simultaneously increasing demand for it. This has led to calls for reform in tenure and promotion processes and changes in publication procedures, in which electronic publishing plays an important role.
http://www.uibk.ac.at/sci-org/voeb/nat.html
Butler, Declan. "The Writing is on the Web for Science Journals in Print." Nature, 397, 195-200 (1999). A thorough briefing on the serials crisis and the role of electronic journals.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/98-fall/article4.html
Mobley, Emily R. "Ruminations on the Sci-Tech Serials Crisis," Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Fall 1998. A quick summary of the evolution of the "serials crisis."
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_4/proberts/index.html
Roberts, Peter, "Scholarly Publishing, Peer Review and the Internet," First Monday, Vol. 4, No. 4 (April 5, 1999). A good summary and literature review of scholarly publishing and electronic journals, with extensive references.
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/202/
The February 1999 issue of the ARL Newsletter contains several proposals relating to electronic journals, journal pricing and the "scholarly communication crisis." Responses to the proposals are found in the June, 1999 issue, http://www.arl.org/newsltr/204/.
http://library.caltech.edu/publications/scholarsforum/
Buck, Anne M, Richard C. Flagan, and Betsy Coles. Scholar's Forum: a New Model For Scholarly Communication. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, March 23, 1999. A detailed proposal to create a consortium of universities, professional societies and authors to create a database of scholarly literature, incorporating the concepts of editorial review, versioning, threaded discourse, copyright protection and archiving.
http://www.arl.org/scomm/pew/pewrept.html
"To Publish and Perish," a special issue of Policy Perspectives, co-sponsored by the Association of Research libraries, the Association of American Universities, and the Pew Higher Education Roundtable. Policy Perspectives, Vol. 7, No. 4 (March, 1998). A call for reform, to meet "the challenge of maintaining access to significant research and scholarship at a time when both the volume and price of information have increased nearly three-fold in the last decade alone."
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_8/odlyzko/index.html
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/odlyzko.html
Odlyzko, Andrew M. "The Economics of Electronic Journals." First Monday, Vol. 2, No. 8 (August 4th, 1997). A thought-provoking analysis of the current crisis in scholarly publishing, with many good references. Reprinted in The Journal of Electronic Publishing Vol. 4, No. 1 (September, 1998).
http://www.createchange.org/home.html
On January 14, 2000, the Association of Research Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition) launched a campaign called CREATE CHANGE. It hopes to inspire faculty to transform the system of scholarly communication. This site lays out the issues in scholarly publishing today, and offers an agenda for reforming the system. This site contains further resources, including a bibliography, at
http://www.createchange.org/resources.html.
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/sweeney.html
Sweeney, Aldrin E. "Should you publish in electronic journals?" The Journal of Electronic Publishing, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (December, 2000). A survey of administrators and faculty in the Florida State University System regarding the legitimacy of e-journal publication in the tenure process, concluding that clear policy guidelines are necessary.
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