Hi, at the Electronic Journals concertation day the other week (held to
exchange experiences amongst the EJ projects), I went rather rapidly and
without the benefit of overheads through a presentation I had given at UKSG
on issues I felt were raised by the eLib EJ projects, at least in my mind.
I was asked to circulate the overheads I had used at UKSG; I hope this
text-based version is useful and you can make some sense of it.
Electronic Journal Issues
Sustainability (1)
* Costs
* Parallel journals cost more
* Non-print saving 30-70%?
* Multi-media costs more
Sustainability (2)
* Who pays?
* author (page charges)
* author community
* reader (per view, per article or per year)
* library (in-house, site etc)
What are EJs like?
* Issues or not?
* delivered vs go get it
* timing
* User interface
* Web vs the rest
* Access control / authentication
Academic issues
* Acceptability
* Which version is definitive?
* Revisions & change control?
* Priority?
* Refereeing
- Traditional vs novel vs none?
Hosting
* Local?
* Data service?
* Publisher?
* Mirror/caching?
* What does this mean for cataloguing?
Pre-prints +
* Low-cost, fast
* Potential to spread bad scholarship
* need for quality assurance mechanism, probably with novel characteristics
* potential model for future of scholarly journals?
Copyright
* Standard journal copyright problems, +
* licences required
* variety of terms & conditions
* variety of pricing models
* impossibility of adherence?
Preservation problems
* Legal
* Technical
* Organisational (who?)
* Financial
* How to get a continuous commitment measured in hundreds of years?
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Chris Rusbridge
Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme
The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
phone: 01203 524979 fax: 01203 524981
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