1 Electronic Journals What Are You Really Getting ? Carol Tenopir University of Tennessee [email protected]
Dec 18, 2015
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Electronic Journals What Are You Really Getting ?
Carol Tenopir
University of Tennessee
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Main Questions:
• Is the title I need available electronically?
• What is included in the e-version?
• Can I cancel print?
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Periodicals
Number of online refereed scholarly periodicals ~12,000
Number of refereed scholarly periodicals ~15,000
Total number of periodicals ~250,000
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Print and Electronic Subscriptions at a U.S. University
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Source: Montgomery and King, “Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections” in D-Lib October 2002. Available at http://wwww.dlib.org/dlib/october02/montgomery/10montgomery.html
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Useful Publications
• Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists, Editors, Dru W. Mogge and Peter Budka. ARL, 2000.
• Fulltext Sources Online. Edited by Donald T. Hawkins and Mary B. Glose. Medford, NJ: Information Today, twice yearly.
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Growth in Peer ReviewedE-Journals
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Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists, Editors, Dru W. Mogge and Peter Budka. ARL, 2000
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Growth in Full Text Sources
Fulltext Sources Online. Edited by Donald T. Hawkins and Mary B. Glose. Medford, NJ: Information Today, twice yearly
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Major Scholarly Electronic Publishers
• Elsevier Science Direct: 1,200
• BertelsmannSpringer: 650
• Blackwell Publishing: 600
• Project Muse: 200
• American Chemical Society: 30
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Major Electronic Journal Aggregators (General)
• OCLC ECO: 4,000
• EBSCOhost: 8,338
• ProQuest: 5,500
• Gale Group: 9,000
• H.W. Wilson: 10,000
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Free (or partially free) Journal Aggregators
• www.findarticles.com
• ejournal.coalliance.org/
• highwire.stanford.edu
• http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov
• www.arXiv.org
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
1 2 3 4 5
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
1 2 3 4 5
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
1 2 3 4 5
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
1 2 3 4 5
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
1 2 3 4 5
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
1 2 3 4 5
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
1 2 3 4 5
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Electronic Journals
Paper byproduct
Text only
Document delivery
Linked to indexing
Electronic only
Multimedia
Interactive
Direct from publisher
1 2 3 4 5
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Category 1
Paper byproduct, text only, document delivery, linked to indexing, full text searching, from aggregator articles model.
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Category 2
Text and graphics of full articles, image, document delivery, linked to indexing, print still dominant, usually from aggregator article model
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Category 3
Electronic journals, print still dominant, most of journal is online (e.g., ads, letters), may be less than print, from publisher, journal model
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Category 4
Electronic journals, offer same or more than print, print still available, multimedia, interactivity, may be limited, from publisher, journal model
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Category 5
Fully electronic, no print, multimedia, interactive, direct from publisher, journal model
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Three Main Economic Choices
1. With Traditional Publishers
2. New Relationship with Publishers
3. Without Traditional Publishers
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With Traditional Publishers
• Society Publishers 23%
• Commercial Publishers 40%
• Other 21%
• Educational 16%
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New Relationships
• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
• BioMed Central
• Public Library of Science
• Budapest Open Archives Initiative
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Without Traditional Publishers
• Institutional Repositories (“University Archiving”)
• Self-Archiving
• E-Print Service (e.g., arXiv.org)
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Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads
SPARCSociety Publishers
Commercial Publishers
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E-Print Service
Self-Archives