Electronic Journals: Bases and Perspectives by Alice Keller 1 – Review (original) (raw)

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

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...

Evaluating the Effective Use of Electronic Journals by the Academia: A Study

DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 2013

Users’ studies are one of the most prominent areas of research in library and information science. Now the trend is to examine the use of e-libraries, e-journals and e-databases. Many studies have been carried out both in India and abroad in this area. This study aims to examine the user behaviour of 66 out of 100 research scholars and faculty members of select departments at the University of Mysore like environmental science, sericulture science, zoology and genetics form the sample. Structured questionnaire with 5 point scale was used and the mean and SD values were calculated using SPSS. The major findings are: Users use both print and electronic sources of information. Majority of the respondents have learnt to use e-journals effectively from ‘friends/colleagues’. The respondents ‘look for quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals’. Respondents identify relevant electronic articles by ‘browsing through recent issues’ (mean=3.39) followed by ‘searching full-text datab...