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Subject: "TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS": PSYC Call for Book Reviewers
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:53:39 +0100
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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
psyc@pucc.princeton.edu
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:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html
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
tenopir@utk.edu
http://web.utk.edu/~tenopir/tenopir.html
Donald W. King
4915 Gullane Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
dwking@umich.edu
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 13,591
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/
