The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization

2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5335-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 264 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

Reihe: Information Science and Knowledge Management

1. The birth of the electronic journal In the autumn of 1987 Michael Ehringhaus and Bird Stasz of Syracuse U- versity launched New horizons in adult education, probably the very rst ref- 1 ereed scienti c journal to be published in electronic form ( g. 1. 1). The rst issue was sent over the Adult Education Network (AEDNET). The journal still 2 exists today. In March 1991 Ted Jennings of the University at Albany (State 3 University of New York) launched EJournal, described as an ‘electronic jo- nal concerned with the implications of electronic networks and texts’ ( g. 1. 2), coining the now popular term e-journal. The Online journal of current cli- cal trials, published from September 1991, has been described as the rst peer 45 reviewed electronic journal in medicine. How signi cant is the phenomenon of the scienti c electronic journaltoday, more than a decade and a half after its introduction? Over this period inf- mation and communication technologies (ICT) have been an important factor in the development of scienti c communication. Applications such as c- munication over digital networks (converging towards a single network – the Internet), the use of computerized systems for creating, storing and retrieving 1 The scienti c journal is also referred to as ‘scholarly’ or ‘research’ journal. We use the former term in this study. 2 Although no longer distributed over AEDNET but through the World Wide Web. The rst issue is now ? available at http://www. nova. edu/ aed/horizons/vol1n1.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mackenzie Owen, John

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften EDV Systeme, Internet und elektronische Ressourcen in Bibliotheken
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Systemverwaltung & Management
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Wartung & Reparatur
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Netzwerk-Hardware
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION.- THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM.- THE DIGITIZATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES.- THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL 1987-2004.- DIGITIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION.