Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 591.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:00:46 +0000
From: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: The Eclectic Journal
_The Eclectic Journal_
Based upon a review of E-journals for my new Web registry, EJI(sm)
[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ],
I have concluded that the present-day "Electronic Journal" is evolving to
become what I call "The Eclectic Journal".
By the "Eclectic Journal", I mean a Web-based resource that at its core
provides access to e-journals that offer not only the conventional content
of a digital form of a journal but also provides or permits interaction
with novel and innovative _features and functionalities_ (e.g., reference
linking, cross-publisher searching, page customization, open peer review,
etc.) _AND_ novel and innovative _content_ (e.g., e-Books, pre-publication
history, electronic discussions, translation services, e-prints,
bibliographic databases, etc.)
[SEE EJI(sm) for _several_ more types of various novel and innovative
features, functionalities, and content *as well as* dozens of specific
examples overall]
Such features, functionalities and content may be integrated _within_
the e-journal proper or made accessible from the main resource.
Sites that I would consider excellent examples of the "Eclectic
Journals" are
BMJ [British Medical Journal] [ http://www.bmj.com/]
This Electric Journal provides access to a bibliographic databases
(i.e., Medline), e-prints, reader commentary, reorganized journal content
(Collected Resources), pre-publication history, etc.] [Free registration
required [?]
The Technical Library of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers
(ASAE) [ http://asae.frymulti.com/ ]
This Eclectic Journal allows concurrent searching of the
various ASAE publications, notably journal, conference proceedings,
standards, technical books, and technical meetings)
As source material for a review I am preparing on the "The Once and
Future Journal" for a special issue of _The Serials Librarian_
[ http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/e-access.htm], I am greatly interested in
identifying Any and All _RECENT_ literature that discusses this
e-publishing phenomena. [I am aware of much of the major and minor works
about the 'Electronic Journal' published within the past 50 years]
Recently, I identified two highly-relevant articles that support my
observations about e-journal evolution:
1- Cox, John. 2000. "The Journal as a provider of community services,"
__The Serials Librarian_ 38(1/2): 199-209
and
2. Anderson, Kent. 2001. "The Mutant journal: how adaptations to online
forces are forcing STM journals to mutate," _Learned Publishing 14(1)
15-22.
[
http://cherubino.catchword.com/vl=71902383/cl=2/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/alpsp/09531513/v14n1/s3/p15
]
[This article offers a *very* interesting perspective on e-journal
evolution!]
[Thanks Garrett Eastman from the Rowland Institute, Cambridge, MA for this
reference]
I am also interested in learning of any _additional_ Eclectic Journal
features, functionalities and/or content that I have _not yet_ established
in
EJI(sm) [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm] . I am also
interested in other examples of Any and All novel and innovative e-journal
features, functionalities, and content for future review and inclusion in
EJI(sm).
As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, critiques, queries, cosmic
insights, etc. etc. etc. are Most Welcome.
Regards,
Gerry McKiernan
Eclectic Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
P.S. From my perspective the ACM Digital Library [ http://www.acm.org/dl/]
and the IEEE Explorer [ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/ ] might
also be considered Eclectic Journals as could EiVillage2 [
http://www.ei.org/engineeringvillage2/partners.html or Ei Engineering
Village [ http://www.ei.org/eivillage/village.serve_page?p=1280 ]
[What Do You Think?]
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