Publishing

Electronic publishing may refer to the publication of electronic journals, electronic articles, e-books, and the development of digital libraries. Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing.

Cook, B. (ed): The Electronic Journal: The Future of Serials-Based Information. New York: Haworth Press, 1992.

Helal, A. H. & Weiss, J. W. (eds): Libraries and Electronic Publishing: Promises and Challenges for the 90's. Essen: Universitätsbibliothek Essen, 1992.

Hjerppe, R. (1986). Electronic publishing: Writing machines and machine writing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 21, 123-166.

Houghton, J. & Vickery, G. (2005). Digital broadband content: Scientific Publishing. OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/12/35393145.pdf

Kling, R. (2004). The Internet and Unrefereed Scholarly Publishing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 38, 591-631.

Kling, R. & Callahan, E. (2003). Electronic journals, the Internet, and scholarly publishing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37, 127- .

Line, M. B. (1988). Redesigning journal articles for on-line viewing. (i: Line, M.B.: Lines of thought: selected papers of Maurice B. Line. London: Clive Bingley, 1988.

Line, M. B. (1992). The Publication and Availability of Scientific and Technical Papers: An Analysis of Requirements and The Suitability of Different Means of Meeting Them. Journal of Documentation. Vol. 48(2), 1992, 201-219.

Morgan, P. Hypertext and the literary document. Journal of Documentation, 1991, 47(4), 373-388.

Oßwald, A. Dokumentlieferung im Zeitalder Electronischen Publizierens. Konstanz: Univ.-Verl. Konstanz, 1992. (Schriften zur Informationswissenschaft 5).

Price, D. S.: Possible impact of electronic publishing on abstracting and indexing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983, 34, 288.

Weller, A. C. (2005). Electronic Scientific Information, Open Access, and Editorial Peer Review: Changes on the Horizon, Science & Technology Libraries, This paper reviews some of the many changes to publishing resulting from the electronic environment and focuses on how open access may impact or alter the editorial peer review process. Developments of particular importance to editorial peer review include the impact of electronic journals (e-journals) on scholarly publishing in general, pre-print repositories, open access journals, and access to unpublished data. New pricing models are changing the economics of scholarly publishing, and there are promises of quick reviews that may impact the peer review process itself. The paper ends with a discussion of the role the government is playing in developing a workable open access model.

The rise of institutional repositories

Anscombe, N. (2005). Archive programmes gain momentum. Research Information, October/November 2005. Excerpt:

The internet has dramatically changed the way that academic institutions around the world safeguard their research results and make them accessible to a wider audience. Many universities now have an institutional repository - a web-based, electronic, open archive of papers, theses and many other kinds of data. In some countries, such as the Netherlands, every single university has an institutional repository and in others, such as the UK, around 60 per cent have one, but the rest are at least planning one. Italy has fewer - research has shown that there are around 77 universities but only 11 institutional repositories - while in Germany there seem to be more institutional repositories than there are universities because many of the individual research institutes have their own. While institutional repositories are very valuable tools for academics and the institutions they work for, publishers of academic journals could have cause for concern. 'Until now, most publishers have not been worried about letting authors post an early version of papers somewhere on the internet,' says Sally Morris, chief executive of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). 'But imagine if all these individual articles (albeit not necessarily final versions) were linked up through networked institutional repositories. It could happen that the majority of papers from a particular journal become available for any researcher to find. This could lead cash-strapped libraries to stop buying that journal, which would make it no longer viable.' Until now, institutional repositories have not obviously harmed publishers' businesses. For example, the physics community has one of the longest running and most comprehensive subject-based repositories (ARXIV), but some leading physics publishers say that it has not affected their subscriptions so far....[M]any organisations are pushing hard to encourage the development and usage of institutional repositories. [Here Anscombe summarizes the NIH, Wellcome Trust, and RCUK policies.]...Research suggests that authors will comply with these [funder] requests. A report commissioned by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) found that the vast majority of authors (81 per cent) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13 per cent would comply reluctantly while only five per cent say that they would not comply with such a mandate. At the time of the survey only 30 per cent of respondents were using specialised search engines to navigate open-access repositories while 72 per cent of authors were using Google to search the web for scholarly articles. The subsequent arrival of GoogleScholar, which indexes the content of open-access repositories as well as general websites, will probably increase the level by which institutional repositories are searched and therefore on the impact of the articles deposited in them....The main problem now, however, is encouraging people to use the repository system.

Anscombe, N. (2005). Archive programmes gain momentum. Research Information, October/November 2005.

Resh, V. H. (1998). Science and Communication: An Author/Editor/User's Perspective on the Transition from Paper to Electronic Publishing. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 19. Available at:

Bibliografi: Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists. Compiled by Michael Strangelove and Diane Kovacs; Ed. by Ann Okerson. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1991.

Offentliggørelse af *dokumenter i elektronisk form, f.eks. i form af *online eller *CD-ROM databaser.

En meget væsentlig problematik for biblioteker er naturligvis, hvordan den elektroniske publicering vil påvirke den dokumentlevering, som det hidtil har været bibliotekernes rolle at varetage, hvordan bibliotekernes rolle ændres. (Jfr. f.eks. Oßwald, 1992).

De fleste eksisterende elektroniske dokumenter (*bibliografier, *fuldtekst eller andre) er ikke primært publiceret elektronisk eller primært designet til elektronisk publicering, men er "spin off" af trykte *publikationer. Et relevant forskningsområde er således, hvordan man designer dokumenter med henblik på fremtidens elektroniske verden (f.eks. under udnyttelse af *hypertekst-mulighederne). Et andet spørgsmål er, hvordan elektronisk publicering må forventes at influere på behovet for og brugen af *indekserings og *abstracts-tjenester (Price, 1983), hvilket dybest set berører, hvad et *emne er.

Udbredelsen af elektronisk publicering vil rejse en lang række problemer m.h.t. kildekontrol. Trykte dokumenter opbevares i *biblioteker, og man kan sikre sig et dokuments autensitet, sammenligne udgaver m.v. Skal fremtidens elektroniske litteratur pligtafleveres til bibliotekerne? Eller skal udgiverne have mulighed for løbende at ændre i de elektroniske dokumenter, således at offentligheden ikke har mulighed for kildekontrol? Tilsvarende har man ved de trykte værker mulighed for at følge med i nyudgivelser via f.eks. nationale bogfortegnelser. Det kongelige Bibliotek publicerer nu f.eks. "Dansk Juridisk Bibliografi" i elektronisk form alene. Bibliotekarer, boghandlere og brugere har idag ikke anden mulighed for at se, om den er opdateret end ved abonnement eller direkte kontakt med udgiveren: Det fremgår ikke længere af "Det danske Bogmarked", at der er kommet hvad der ville svare til et nyt bind.