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The Electronic Journal: Replica of the Printed Medium or a Innovative Platform for Scholarly Communication. Alice Keller, ETH-Bibliothek Zurich Swets Blackwell Workshop Warsaw , March 2001. Replica of the Printed Medium. Online Medium with Enhanced Features.
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The Electronic Journal: Replica of the Printed Medium or a Innovative Platform for Scholarly Communication Alice Keller, ETH-Bibliothek Zurich Swets Blackwell Workshop Warsaw, March 2001
Or, no peer-reviewed journals at all? Los Alamos E-Print Archive
Replica or Innovative Platform? • EZB: January 2001: 8.000 Title entries • 74% STM-Journals • 26% Social Sciences, Art & Humanities • 89% Doppelgänger (print + online publications) • Will e-journals remain replicas of the printed medium or will they become innovative scholarly communication platforms?
Selected results from a Delphi-Survey „Future development of electronic journals“ (Jan-Dec 99) Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Feedback Feedback
The Expert Panel • International expert panel, 45 specialists
Query: „Journals with peer review will represent the most important form of formal scholarly communication.“
Query: „The current situation with digital doppelgängers represents a transient period.“ (median: 2005)
Query: „When will all major subject areas be served by large preprint archives?“ (median: 2008, 20% never)
The Journal of the Future • Customised collections of articles, put together according to the users’ personal interest profiles. • Articles will be tagged with quality labels and stored in large knowledge environments. • Articles will be replaced by dynamic information objects that represent versions of a paper over time. All options are possible. Possibly along side each other.
Access model Query: „Libraries will in future offer unrestricted access to core journals through license agreements and pay-per-use access to journals of secondary importance.“ Agree 87,2% Don‘t agree 7,7% (Not valid: 5.1.%)
Considering the variety of options and requirements it is likely that librarians will in future be confronted with a considerable range of - different publishing formats - different access models - different cost and pricing models Choosing the right option will be our challenge for the future
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