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PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS:
Tenopir/King: Towards Electronic Journals
Below is the Abstract of "Towards Electronic Journals" by Carol Tenopir
and Donald W. King. This book has been selected for multiple review in
Psycoloquy, a refereed journal of Open Peer Commentary in the
biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. If you
wish to submit a formal book review please write to
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indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the book
if you were selected to review it.
(If you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY or Behavioral & Brain
Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a copy of
your CV to your inquiry.) If you are selected as one of the
reviewers and do not have a copy of the book, you will be sent a copy of
the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if you have a
copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without invitation, but all
reviews will be refereed. The author will reply to all accepted reviews.
FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT:
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http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/
FULL ARTICLE-LENGTH PRECIS OF THE BOOK IS RETRIEVABLE FROM:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084
Note: Psycoloquy reviews are of the BOOK not the Precis. Review Length
should be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short abstract
(about 50 words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full name and
institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All
references that are electronically accessible should also have URLs.
AUTHORS' RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING MULTIPLE REVIEW: We would like
scientists as authors, readers, editors, referees and observers of the
coming electronic age to review the book through their personal
experiences and knowledge, which they think confirm, reinforce, or
refute our observations. We would also appreciate comments on
our interpretation of results. We look at the book as a stepping-stone
in our further study of electronic journals. Input from scientists is
particularly desired for our future study.
psycoloquy.00.11.084.electronic-journals.1.tenopir Sun Jun 18
2000
ISSN 1055-0143 (53 paragraphs, 7 references, 954
lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association
(APA)
Copyright 2000 Carol Tenopir & Donald W. King
TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: REALITIES FOR SCIENTISTS, LIBRARIANS, AND
PUBLISHERS
[Special Libraries Association 2000, xxii + 488pp ISBN 0-87111-507-7]
Precis of Tenopir on Electronic-Journals
Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee
804 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37919
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http://web.utk.edu/~tenopir/tenopir.html
Donald W. King
4915 Gullane Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
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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.
KEYWORDS: copyright, citation impact, digital library, electronic
archives, electronic publishing, electronic journals, peer review,
publication costs, research funding
OVERVIEW OF CONTENTS: "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King
2000) is addressed to four audiences: scientists as authors and readers;
journal publishers; librarians and other intermediaries; and
organizational funders of scientists and libraries. An attempt was made:
(1) to describe the communication practices of scientists,
librarians, and publishers; (2) to establish their goals, motives, and
incentives for the way in which they do things; and (3) to determine the
cost and other economic aspects of their involvement. In particular, we
felt it important for each journal system participant to gain a better
understanding and appreciation of the contributions made by all
participants and to enable them to make more informed decisions about
electronic journals in the future.
To achieve these objectives we partitioned the book into five parts, in
addition to an introduction. A background part provides a summary of the
quantitative results, a brief history of scientific scholarly journals
including early electronic publishing, a framework for describing
scholarly journals as a system embedded in larger communication and
science systems, and a description of our data collection methods. Data
include results from 3,591 readership survey responses from scientists
(1977 to 1998); more than 100 cost studies of library services,
publishing, and scientists' authorship and information seeking; a study
of the characteristics of a sample of 715 scholarly journals tracked
from 1960 to 1995; and review of more than 800 relevant publications.
The next three parts address the principal participants: (1)
scientists, including their general communication activities and journal
authorship, readership and information-seeking patterns; (2) libraries,
including general library use and journal-related
services use and economics; and (3) publishers, including journal
publishing costs, pricing, and financial considerations. The last part
covers electronic publishing details and aspects
appropriate to each of the journal system participants.
Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000) Towards Electronic Journals:
Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers. Washington, D.C.:
Special Libraries Association.
http://www.sla.org
FULL PRECIS IS RETRIEVABLE FROM:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084
FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/
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