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Research Articles in Scholarly Electronic Communication (2002)
| Venue: | Technology (ARIST |
| Citations: | 2 - 2 self |
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@ARTICLE{Kling02researcharticles,
author = {Rob Kling and Ewa Callahan and Blaise Cronin and Debora Shaw (eds},
title = {Research Articles in Scholarly Electronic Communication},
journal = {Technology (ARIST},
year = {2002},
volume = {37}
}
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Abstract
Introduction We are currently in a period of substantial debate about the character of scholarly publishing systems. Some of the issues -- such as the costs of journals, speed of publication, and fairness of blindly refereed reviewing practices -- predate public access to the Internet. There has been an economic crisis in scholarly publishing since the late 1980's due to the costs of scientific journals rising much faster than both inflation and the growth of library budgets ((Miller, 2000; Kirkpatrick, 2000). During the 1990s, some academic research libraries have reduced the number of their journals subscriptions -- across many disciplines -- by thousands of journals. Many analysts believe that the costs of electronic publishing would be substantially lower than the costs of publishing paper journals. Further, some have argued that electronic publishing would enable not-for-profit organizations, such as universities, to assume the responsibilities of publishing a substantial
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