Back to basics: what is the e-journal?

REFERENCES

1. Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries e-journal definition; viewed January 2004 <http://www.stcc.cc.tx.us/main/e-journalsearch.html)>

2. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press. Definitions taken from online version <http://dictionary.oed.com/>

3. Examples of these early e-journals include: Public-Access Computer Systems Review (1990-1998) <http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/pacsrev.html>; Postmodern Culture (1990 to date). Text-only archive at <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/back-contents.html>; New Horizons in Adult Education (1987 to date) <http://www.nova.edu/~aed/newhorizons.html>; Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues (1989 to date) <http://www.lib.unc.edu/prices/>; and Psycoloquy (started 1989) <http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/)>

4. Archie and Veronica are no longer functional search engines, but Gopher survives along the much more sophisticated technology; for example see <http://gopher.quux.org:70/>. Ftp files can now be searched in some of the web search engines, for example AlltheWeb (http://www.alltheweb.com/).

5. S. Hitchcock et al. A survey of STM online journals 1990-1995: the calm before the storm. Open Journals Framework Project. <http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/survey/survey.html>

6. S. Hitchcock et al. Web journals publishing: a UK perspective. Serials 10 (3): 285-299.

7. The SuperJournal project, funded as part of the JISC eLib programme, 1996-1998. Information on this project archived at <http://www.mimas.ac.uk/sj/index.htm>

8. A sense of the growth in e-journals between 1990 and 1997 can be found by viewing the background on the ARL Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists, at <http://db.arl.org/dsej/2000/mogge.html>

9. Davis, Caroline. College libraries snub pricey online journal. Times Higher Educational Supplement, 2 March 2001, page 1. Online version viewed <http://www.thes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?story_id=71231>

10. For more information on open archiving, see the Open Archives Initiative website at <http://www.openarchives.org/>. For more information on open access, see Open Access News (Indiana: Peter Suber) e-journal at <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html>

11. The Free Directory of E-zines, 1999-2003 <http://www.freezineweb.com/>

12. Ezine dot net. <http://theezine.net/index.php>

13. Sax Tips Ezine Newsletter <http://www.saxtipsezine.com/>

14. Leader Ideas Newsletter <http://www.leadersinstitute.com/free_newsletter.html>

15. E-Book News (viewed at http://e-book-zone.com/subscribe.htm)

16. ICAAP <http://www.icaap.org/database/journals.html>

17. Library HQ.com: resources for the wired librarian. <http://www.libraryhq.com/glossary.html)>

18. Guide to Internet Terms: a Glossary. The GetNetWise website <http://www.getnetwise.org/glossary.php>

19. Glossary of Internet Terms <http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html>

20. Open Access News <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html>

21. NetLingo <http://www.netlingo.com/>

22. An example weblog serving HE can be found at EduResourcesWeblog. <http://radio.weblogs.com/0114870/>

23. Andreas Rauber and Andreas Aschenbrenner. Part of our culture is born digital – on efforts to preserve it for future generations. TRANS. On-line Journal for Cultural Studies. 10 July 2001.

24. Multiple examples can be found in: Gerry McKiernan. E is for Everything: The Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary [E-] Journal. Technical Report. <viewed at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000050/>

25. Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation project, Loughborough University. <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/CLDP/index.htm>

26. For example, Create Change: FAQ on Scholarly Communication Crisis <http://www.createchange.org/librarians/faq/scomm.html>

27. Tempe Principles (Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing); 10 May 2000. <http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html>

28. For example: B. D. Crawford. Open-access publishing: where is the value? Lancet 362 (9395), 8 November 2003: 1758-1780; D. Adam. Scientists take on the publishers in an experiment to make research free to all. The Guardian, 6 October 2003 <viewed online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1056608,00.html>; A. Jackson. The Digital Mathematics Library. Notices of the AMS 50 (8), September 2003: 918-923; and J. McColl and S. Pinfield. Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain with SHERPA. Ariadne, issue 33, 10 October 2002 <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/sherpa/intro.html>

29. SPARC <http://www.arl.org/sparc/home/index.asp?page=0>, and SPARC Europe <http://www.sparceurope.org/>

30. The Public Library of Science. <http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/>

31. Directory of Open Access E-journals. <http://www.doaj.org/>

32. ROMeO <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/>; and SHERPA <http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/>

33. Bill Hubbard, Project Manager. The SHERPA project: assisting scholarly communication. Presentation given at University of Leeds, 3 December 2003.

34. Electronic Journal of Sociology <http://www.sociology.org/>

35. Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving. Co-publication of Council on Library and Information Resources and the Library of Congress, 2002 <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/contents.html>. This report brings discussion on different digital media together.