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.
Thread on "A 78-year old Journal goes Electronic"
(with thanks to S.Harnad)
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)
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)
Lawyering on the Internet (Robin
Widdison)
Cranfield University Code of Practice for the Publishing of Information in Electronic Format
Imperial College Code of Practice
Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review
Villanova Information Law Chronicle
Implementing Peer Review on the Net: Scientific Quality Control in Scholarly Electronic Journals (Stevan
Harnad)
Papers in Information Economics (Hal
Varian)
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