Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide
(archival resource, no longer maintained)
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Introduction
This Resource guide is an introduction to the rapidly growing field of electronic journals. The sources are spread broadly across the library literature, and this guide attempts to select a representative, but not exhaustive, group of publications that cover the history of e-journals and the main issues involved in their production, management and use. The guide also suggests starting points for more in-depth investigations, and includes sources for keeping current with ongoing developments in electronic journals.
Likely readers of this guide will include library staff who are involved in the selection, management, and distribution of electronic journals; systems staff who are involved in providing access to them; managers who are making electronic journals available in their libraries; and publishers, vendors and distributors of electronic journals.
The selection of sources is heavily weighted in favor of those that are freely available on the World Wide Web. Every attempt will be made to keep this resource guide current and to make sure that the links are active. As new resources are added, older ones will be dropped, in order to keep the resource guide selective and current.
General sources of information: overviews, bibliographies and collections of papers
The following bibliographies and collections of papers are useful starting points for exploring the entire field of electronic journals:
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Bailey, Charles, Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bulletin. Sponsored by University Libraries, University of Houston. This is regularly maintained list of references to materials on electronic publishing. Click on "Contents" to see the Table of Contents; then look at the section on Electronic Serials.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
Current Cites is an annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology, maintained by the University of California, Berkeley, Library. From this page, search for the term "electronic journals" to retrieve a bibliography on this topic.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-spring/article4.html
Buckley, Chad, et al. "Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Journals: A Bibliographic Essay of Current Issues." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 1999. A summary of the issues, with a bibliography for each one. This entire issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-spring/) is devoted to electronic journals in science and technology libraries.
http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/onlineserials.htm
Jones, Wayne, editor. E-Serials: Publishers, Libraries, Users, and Standards. New York : Haworth Press, 1998. Also published as Vol. 33, No. 1-4 of The Serials Librarian. Abstracts and selected articles are available online. This is a current compilation of the most important issues involving e-journals.
http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/e-jrnl-report.html
"Report on the NISO/NFAIS Workshop: Electronic Journals - Best Practices." This is a report on a workshop held on February 20, 2000, to examine and propose best practices for the production and management of electronic journals.
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/
"nature webdebates: future e-access to the primary literature." nature magazine sponsors an ongoing debate concerning the impact of the Web on the publishing of the results of original research.
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