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The Scholarly Journal and its Future Development

Explore the development of electronic journals, from digital replicas to enhanced platforms with interactive features. Discover the changes in scholarly communication, digital preservation, and new pricing and access models. This article discusses the challenges faced by libraries and the choices they will have to make in the future.

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The Scholarly Journal and its Future Development

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  1. The Scholarly Journal and its Future Development Alice Keller, ETH-Bibliothek Zurich 22nd IATUL Conference, 29 May 2001, Delft

  2. What will the electronic journal of the future look like? Replica of the printed medium?

  3. Online publication with enhanced features?

  4. Interactive platform with innovative features?

  5. Or, will there be no peer-reviewed journals at all? Los Alamos E-Print Archive

  6. Selected Results of the Delphi Survey on the“Future Development of Electronic Journals”

  7. The Expert Panel • 45 inter-national specialists

  8. „Future Development of Electronic Journals“ Oct. 1999 Return 87% Feb. 1999 Return 91% July 1999 Return 93% Round 1 Round 3 Round 2 Feedback Feedback

  9. Selected Results from the Delphi Survey 1. Electronic journals: a publication platform in transition 2. Increasing product diversity 3. Changes in scholarly communication 4. A way out of the serials crisis? 5. Digital preservation 6. New models for pricing and accessing electronic journals

  10. 1. Electronic journals: a publication platform in transition • Currently predominantly digital doppelgängers. • For the future we expect “real” electronic journals with enhanced features using new technologies. • Electronic journals: primary distribution outlet or a useful add-on?

  11. Digital doppelgängers Query: The current situation with digital doppelgängers represents a transient period. (median: 2005)

  12. 2. Increasing product diversity as a new challenge • Multiple presentation formats of one journal. • Enhanced features can increase value (and costs). • Greater product diversity demands more flexibility in libraries.

  13. Journal of the future: what will it look like? • Customised collection 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.

  14. 3. Changes in scholarly communication • Other publication platforms will prove to be more efficient and effective than journals are (especially in the area of communication and distribution). • Quality control remains the most important contribution of the scholarly journal.

  15. Comparison Journals - Preprint Archives

  16. The journal in scholarly communication Query: Journals with peer-review will re-present the most important form of formal scholarly communication.

  17. 4. Serials crisis • Crisis or revolution? • Digital doppelgängers alone won’t eliminate the deficiencies in the journal system. • New technologies offer solutions in various areas: • Alternative access models (consortia, electronic document delivery, pay-per-use access) • Alternative pricing models (e.g. SPARC) • Do-it-yourself publishing

  18. 5. Digital preservation: no easy answers • Currently print editions serve as archival copies. • This will be discontinued in the second half of the decade. • Who will be responsible for digital preservation? • Archiving as national role (national depositories) • Archiving as a co-operative task (national depositories + international subject-specific archives, commercial providers for selected services)

  19. Query: In which year will libraries stop subscribing to printed versions of major scholarly journals for archival purposes? Median: 2007 (never: 2,6%) Query:In which year will the average article have so many interactive and/or multimedia features, that printing it will only convey part of the information? Median: 2006 (never: 2,6%)

  20. 6. New Pricing and Access Models • Core journals are available with no restrictions via license agreements. • Less important journals are available via pay-per-use systems. • Consequences of widespread introduction of pay-per-use systems are not clear. • The real advantages of consortia remain controversial.

  21. 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.%)

  22. Considering the variety of options and requirements it is likely that librarians will in future be confronted with a wide range of - different publishing formats - different access models - different cost and pricing models Choosing the right option will be our challenge for the future

  23. The End Presentation: http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/pub/vortr2001.html Publications: http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/pub/pub2001.html Keller, Alice: Zeitschriften in der Krise: Entwicklung und Zukunft elektronischer Zeitschriften. Berlin, 2001. Keller, Alice: Elektronische Zeitschriften im Wandel: Eine Delphi-Studie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001. (Bibliotheksarbeit, 10)

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