"TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS": Tenopir & King

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:53:39 +0100

    PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS:

    Tenopir/King: Towards Electronic Journals

    Below is the Abstract of "Towards Electronic Journals" by Carol
    Tenopir and Donald W. King. This book has been selected for
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    scientists as authors, readers, editors, referees and observers of
    the coming electronic age to review the book through their personal
    experiences and knowledge, which they think confirm, reinforce, or
    refute our observations. We would also appreciate comments on our
    interpretation of results. We look at the book as a stepping-stone
    in our further study of electronic journals. Input from scientists
    is particularly desired for our future study.

psycoloquy.00.11.084.electronic-journals.1.tenopir Sun Jun 18 2000
ISSN 1055-0143 (53 paragraphs, 7 references, 954 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
                Copyright 2000 Carol Tenopir & Donald W. King

                TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS:
        REALITIES FOR SCIENTISTS, LIBRARIANS, AND PUBLISHERS
    [Special Libraries Association 2000, xxii + 488pp ISBN 0-87111-507-7]
                Precis of Tenopir on Electronic-Journals

                Carol Tenopir
                School of Information Sciences
                University of Tennessee
                804 Volunteer Boulevard
                Knoxville, TN 37919
                tenopir_at_utk.edu
                http://web.utk.edu/~tenopir/tenopir.html

                Donald W. King
                4915 Gullane Drive
                Ann Arbor, MI 48103
                dwking_at_umich.edu

    ABSTRACT: This precis of "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir &
    King 2000) focuses mostly on scientists' perspective as authors and
    readers, how changes over the years by publishers and librarians
    have affected scientists, and what they should expect from
    electronic journal and digital journal article databases. We
    describe some myths concerning scholarly journals and attempt to
    assess the future in a realistic manner. Most of our primary data
    involves U.S. scientists, libraries and publishers, but much of the
    secondary data is from a European perspective, which shows few
    differences.

    KEYWORDS: copyright, citation impact, digital library, electronic
    archives, electronic publishing, electronic journals, peer review,
    publication costs, research funding

    OVERVIEW OF CONTENTS: "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King
    2000) is addressed to four audiences: scientists as authors and
    readers; journal publishers; librarians and other intermediaries;
    and organizational funders of scientists and libraries. An attempt
    was made: (1) to describe the communication practices of
    scientists, librarians, and publishers; (2) to establish their
    goals, motives, and incentives for the way in which they do things;
    and (3) to determine the cost and other economic aspects of their
    involvement. In particular, we felt it important for each journal
    system participant to gain a better understanding and appreciation
    of the contributions made by all participants and to enable them to
    make more informed decisions about electronic journals in the
    future.
        To achieve these objectives we partitioned the book into five
    parts, in addition to an introduction. A background part provides a
    summary of the quantitative results, a brief history of scientific
    scholarly journals including early electronic publishing, a
    framework for describing scholarly journals as a system embedded in
    larger communication and science systems, and a description of our
    data collection methods. Data include results from 13,591
    readership survey responses from scientists (1977 to 1998); more
    than 100 cost studies of library services, publishing, and
    scientists' authorship and information seeking; a study of the
    characteristics of a sample of 715 scholarly journals tracked from
    1960 to 1995; and review of more than 800 relevant publications.
        The next three parts address the principal participants: (1)
    scientists, including their general communication activities and
    journal authorship, readership and information-seeking patterns; (2)
    libraries, including general library use and journal-related
    services use and economics; and (3) publishers, including journal
    publishing costs, pricing, and financial considerations. The last
    part covers electronic publishing details and aspects appropriate
    to each of the journal system participants.

Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000) Towards Electronic Journals:
Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers. Washington,
D.C.: Special Libraries Association.
http://www.sla.org

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