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Adoption of Web 2.0 tools among STM publishers. How social are scientific journals?

The use of social media has increased dramatically among scientific researchers, due to their free availability and ease of use. Consequently, publishers have now embraced Web 2.0 features to promote and share the content of their publications and to enhance their visibility and use, as these new web tools are a powerful marketing and promotion channel. Publishers also aim to create a closer relationship with their audience by providing tools to facilitate communication between users of their platforms. Due to the rapid evolution of Web 2.0 technologies, there is little data available on the adoption of these tools among publishers. The purpose of this study is to examine the availability of social media tools by science publishers

Validation of Digital Publishing Innovation Adoption Framework

2018

Globally, digital publishing innovations have been shown to be effective in breaking down book production and distribution barriers. However, there has been a dearth of studies on digital publishing innovations (D.P.I.) in Nigeria, particularly as it relates to predictors of innovation adoption. This study, therefore, examined the extent to which perceived contextual factors and perceived relative advantage correlate with the extent of adoption of digital publishing innovations with a view to validating a framework to aid the adoption of digital publishing in developing environments. A framework modifying the diffusion of innovations theory and the Technology, Organisation, Environment theory was designed. A total of 109 copies of a questionnaire were administered on purposively selected publishers to test the framework, and data were analysed using correlation and multiple regression at the 0.05 level of significance. Findings indicate that perceived relative advantage (r = 0.54), ...

Electronic Publishing : the evolution and economics of a hybrid journal

1997

The technical, social and economic issues of electronic publishing are examined by using as a case study the evolution of the journal Electronic Publishing Origination, Dissemination and Design (EP-odd) which is published by John Wiley Ltd. The journal is a `hybrid' one, in the sense that it appears in both electronic and paper form, and is now in its ninth year of publication. The author of this paper is the journal's Editor-in- Chief. The first eight volumes of EP-odd have been distributed via the conventional subscription method but a new method, from volume 9 onwards, is now under discussion whereby accepted papers will first be published on the EP-odd web site, with the printed version appearing later as a once-per-volume operation. Later sections of the paper lead on from the particular experiences with EP-odd into a more general discussion of peer review and the acceptability of e-journals in universities, the changing role of libraries, the sustainability of traditio...

User Awareness and Use of Electronic Journals: A Study

2012

The advancement in information technology has changed the reading habits and the publication format of documents. E-journal is a well established and the most popular phenomena. The present paper deals with the awareness and use of e-journals by researchers. The study reviled the purpose of using e-journals, frequency of use, location of accessing e-journals, using patron and satisfaction level of users

Moderating Influence of Firm Age on the Adoption of E-Publishing Innovations

Innovations, 2024

Demographic factors such as age are known to be correlates of innovation adoption across industries, including the publishing industry, but several studies present conflicting results on the correlates of technology adoption. Thus, it is yet to be clearly understood whether firm age exercises moderating influence on organisational adoption of e-publishing innovations or not. This study, using data collected from 109 publishing firms, therefore, attempts to assess the influence of firm age on the adoption of e-publishing hardware, e-formats, e-promotion and e-commerce. Findings indicate that firm age played a role in the adoption behaviour of firms but did not significantly influence innovation adoption rates, suggesting that innovation characteristics play more crucial roles in the adoption of e-publishing innovations. The fact that e-publishing is needed for survival by both old and young publishers explains the contradiction and suggests that business focus might be more important in understanding adoption behaviour in some industries.