Electronic scholarly journals as information sources

BuHding web-based scholarly communication forums using electronic journals

,I Scholarly comrnunication is the root of scientific progress. Research on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the scholarly communication system is being carried out worldwide, particularJy with respect to electronic journals which can and should be constructed as communication forums. Refereeing new contributions for thest:; forums is a major means for their quality control an...

A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on scholarly information behavior

A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on the information behavior of academics at Catalan universities shows that academics now read more, and more widely. However, their reading is becoming more superficial; they are compelled to improve their discrimination skills in order to decide what to read in more depth. The electronic accessibility of journals means that academics no...

Income sources as underlying business models' attributes for scholarly journals: preliminary findings from analysing open access journals data

The Study for Open Access Publishing (SOAP) project is one of the initiatives undertaken to explore the risks and opportunities of the transition to open access publishing. Some of the early analyses of open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) show that more than half of the open access publishing initiatives (56%) were undertaken by smaller publishers associa...

Preserving Scholarly E-Journals

For research libraries, the long-term preservation of digital collections may well be the most important issue in digital libraries. In certain ways, digital materials are incredibly fragile, dependent for their continued utility upon technologies that undergo rapid and continual change. In the world of physical research materials, a great number of valuable research resources have been saved p...

Hijacked journals are emerging as a challenge for scholarly publishing.