Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 12:34:09 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@GWGATE.LIB.IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Virtual E-Journals

                                    _Virtual E-Journals_

    I am greatly interested in identifying additional 'Virtual' electronic
journals. A 'Virtual Journal' may be described as an electronic journal
in a specific subject discipline that is composed of  relevant articles
selected from other electronic journals.

   Two virtual journals of which I am aware are

    Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
    [ http://www.vjbio.org/  ]

and

    Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
    [  http://www.vjnano.org/ ]

which were launched in January 2000 by the American Institute of Physics
(AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS).

 Each of the virtual journals presents an online collection of
relevant papers from a broad range of "source" journals in the physical
 sciences.

  As noted in a press release
 [  http://www.aip.org/press_release/vj_release.html ]

These virtual journals are "online journals that ... collect relevant
papers from a broad range of physical science journals, including all
journals published by APS and AIP and selected journals from
participating publishers on AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS).
 From the user's perspective, the virtual journals ... look and feel
like "real"journals, providing browsable Tables of Contents and
freely available abstracts, with links to full-text articles in the source
journals. Subscribers to the source journal will be able to seamlessly
access the full-text articles, while non-subscribers will
have the option to purchase articles for immediate online delivery."

"Virtual journals ... provide users with quick, convenient access to
information in cutting-edge fields," according to Martin
Blume, Editor-in-Chief at the American Physical Society. "Gathering into
one spot all the papers on a given topic that appear
in a wide range of premier physics-related journals ... help specialists
keep abreast of the latest developments, not only with
title 'alerts' but with abstracts and full-text articles."

Participating source journals include all journals published by APS
and AIP, journals from participating publishers on AIP's Online Journal
Publishing Service (OJPS), and as of August 2000 _Science_ magazine

[ http://ojps.aip.org/jhtml/vjs/partpub.html].

      As Always, Any and All additional candidate ''Virtual Journals'
would be most welcome, including any that are currently under
consideration or development.

[I'd also be interested in the titles of current or former
'Anthologized' print journals that consist/consisted of articles
reprinted/republished from other print journals]
[Any citations about this publishing phenomenon - either in print or
electronic - would be of great interest!]

/Gerry McKiernan
Anthologized Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu