Re: "TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS": Tenopir & King

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:33:13 +0000

The following has just been published in Psycoloquy
(retrievable at the URLs indicated):

REPLY:

Tenopir, C. (2000) ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: CURRENT ANALYSIS, NOT FORECASTING
Reply to 6 Reviewers on Electronic-Journals
PSYCOLOQUY 11(125)
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/
psyc.00.11.125.electronic-journals.8.tenopir
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.125

    ABSTRACT: The primary purpose of "Towards Electronic Journals"
    (Tenopir & King 2000a,b) was to report the current state of
    scientific journal publishing, not to predict the future of the
    field. We respond to charges that our work treats scientific
    publishing as a homogenous entity rather than differentiating among
    individual subject areas. We defend the validity of our data and
    models as benchmarks, rather than predictors. Despite the
    weaknesses identified by the critiques, the book develops several
    themes for future consideration and provides sound indicators of
    scientific journal publishing and its affect on scientists'
    readership, authorship, information seeking patterns, and on
    library and intermediary services.

ORIGINAL TARGET ARTICLE (BOOK PRECIS):

        Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000b) Precis of: "Towards
        Electronic Journals." PSYCOLOQUY 11(084)
        ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/
        psyc.00.11.084.electronic-journals.1.tenopir
        http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.084

        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.

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

6 REVIEWS:

Algarabel, S. (2000) The Future of Electronic Publishing. PSYCOLOQUY
11(092) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/
psyc.00.11.092.electronic-journals.5.algarabel
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.092

Bookstein, F.L. (2000) On "Value-Added" by Electronic Journals:
Infelicity of a Microeconomic Metaphor. PSYCOLOQUY 11(090)
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/
psyc.00.11.090.electronic-journals.3.bookstein
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.090

Ebenezer, S. (2000) Electronic Journals: Incremental Change or Radical
Shift? PSYCOLOQUY 11(091)
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/
psyc.00.11.091.electronic-journals.4.ebenezer
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.091

Medeiros, N. (2000) Publication Costs: Electronic Versus Print.
PSYCOLOQUY 11(089)
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/
psyc.00.11.089.electronic-journals.2.medeiros
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.089

Miller, L.N. (2000) Will Electronic Publishing Reduce the Cost of
Scholarly Scientific Journals? PSYCOLOQUY 11(093)
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/
psyc.00.11.093.electronic-journals.6.miller
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.093

Shum, S.B. (2000) Research Needed on Online Usage and Peer review.
PSYCOLOQUY 11(094)
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/
psyc.00.11.094.electronic-journals.7.shum
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.094
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