Useful Literature

This is a small selection of literature covering some of the issues relevant to electronic journals. It is intended only as a place to get started.


Special Item

Thread on "A 78-year old Journal goes Electronic" (with thanks to S.Harnad)


General

American Physical Society Publishing News

An Economic Analysis of Scientific Journal Prices (Noll and Steinmueller)

BUBL Articles on Publishing and Bookselling

Electronic Scholarly Publishing and the World Wide Web (Andrew Treloar)

Getting an ISSN (Charles Bailey)

Harnad-Fuller debate on ejournals in Times Higher Educational Supplement, May 12th 1995

Hypertext Presentations on Ejournals

Initiatives in Digital Information

The Impact of Electronic Publication on Scholarly Journals (John Franks)

In the Beginning Was the Word (Tom Wilson)

Network Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography (Charles Bailey)

Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge (Stevan Harnad)

The Publication of University or Research Electronic Periodicals: The Stakes and Urgencies (Jean-Claude Guedon, in French, Acrobat Document)

Publicly Retrievable FTP Archives for Esoteric Science and Scholarship: A Subversive Proposal (Stevan Harnad)

Selected Articles (JEP)

Scholarly Skywriting and the Pre-publication Continuum of Scientific Enquiry (Stevan Harnad)

A Universal Citation Database as a catalyst for Reform in Scholarly Communication (Rob Cameron)

A Web of SINs - the nature and organization of Special Interest Networks (D.G. Green)

What is an Electronic Journal? (John Franks)

What Scholars Want and Need from Electronic journals (Stevan Harnad)


Copyright, WWW and the Law

Articles on Copyright (JEP)

Lawyering on the Internet (Robin Widdison)

Cranfield University Code of Practice for the Publishing of Information in Electronic Format

Imperial College Code of Practice

Netwatchers

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review

Villanova Information Law Chronicle


Peer Review

Implementing Peer Review on the Net: Scientific Quality Control in Scholarly Electronic Journals (Stevan Harnad)

Papers in Information Economics (Hal Varian)


Technical Issues

Article (JEP)


Libraries

Acquisition and Access at University Libraries (Gail McMillan)

British Library Working Party on Electronic Publishing

Campus Publishing in Standardized Electronic Formats (David Seaman)

Cataloging Internet Resources: a Manual and Practical Guide (Nancy Olson)

The Public Acess Computer Systems Review


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