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Electronic Journals And Changes In Scholarly Article Seeking And Reading Patterns, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
Electronic Journals And Changes In Scholarly Article Seeking And Reading Patterns, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
A recent article by James Evans in Science (Evans 2008) is being widely discussed in the science and publishing communities. Evans' in-depth research on citations in over 34 million articles and how online availability affects citing patterns, found that the more issues of a journal that are available online, the fewer numbers of articles in that journal are cited. If the journal is available for free online, it is cited even less. Evans attributes this phenomenon to more searching and less browsing (which he feels eliminates marginally relevant articles that may have been found by browsing) and the ability …
Patterns Of Journal Use By Scientists Through Three Evolutionary Phases., Carol Tenopir, Matt Grayson, Yan Zhang, Mercy Ebuen, Donald W. King, Peter B. Boyce
Patterns Of Journal Use By Scientists Through Three Evolutionary Phases., Carol Tenopir, Matt Grayson, Yan Zhang, Mercy Ebuen, Donald W. King, Peter B. Boyce
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Access to electronic journals and articles has involved three system phases: an early phase following introduction of electronic journals; an evolving phase in which a majority of scientific journals are available in electronic format, new features are added to some journals, and some individual articles are made available through preprint archives, author web sites, etc; and an advanced phase in which searching capabilities, advanced features, and individual articles are integrated in a complete system along with full text of core journals available back to their origin. This article provides some evidence of how scientists' information seeking and reading patterns are …
Electronic Journal Use: A Glimpse Into The Future With Information From The Past And Present, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
Electronic Journal Use: A Glimpse Into The Future With Information From The Past And Present, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
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The Use And Value Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
The Use And Value Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
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This paper summarized results of 13,591 readership survey responses of scientists and reviews of hundreds of other readership studies reported in a recent book: Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers (Tenopir & King, 2000). In particular, survey results reveal amounts and trends of reading and information-seeking patterns, such as how readers identify articles that are read and where they obtain them. The survey results also demonstrate the usefulness and value of scientific scholarly journals. Past results suggest that electronic journals and digital full-text databases will play a major role in the future of scientific scholarly journals …
The Cost And Price Dilemma Of Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir
The Cost And Price Dilemma Of Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir
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This paper examines the overall cost of the scientific scholarly journal system and find that the relative system costs have not increased since the late 1970s. Why then have journal prices skyrocketed over this same period? We first describe typical scholarly publishing costs, because to understand journal prices one must understand the factors that affect these costs. We then describe some factors that have likely contributed to spiraling price increases and changes in journal subscription demand. Finally we discuss some alternative pricing policies that might help in the future. This paper summarizes results reported in a recent book: Towards Electronic …
Designing Electronic Journals With 30 Years Of Lessons Learned From Print: Economic And Use Patterns Of Scientific Journals., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
Designing Electronic Journals With 30 Years Of Lessons Learned From Print: Economic And Use Patterns Of Scientific Journals., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Scientists find journals useful, both for their teaching and their research — so useful, in fact, that they are willing to pay for them. If electronic journals prove to be as useful, or more useful, their viability is assured.
Economic Cost Models Of Scientific Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir
Economic Cost Models Of Scientific Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir
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This paper summarizes costs of publishing scientific scholarly journals. Activities are described for five publishing components: article processing (e.g., manuscript processing, editing , composition, etc.), non-article processing (i.e. similar activities related to covers, tables-of-content, letters, book reviews, etc.), reproduction (e.g., printing, collating, binding, etc.), distribution (e.g., wrapping, labeling, sorting, mailing, subscription maintenance, etc.), and support (e.g., marketing, administration, finance, etc.). A model is derived for each of these components consisting of cost parameters (e.g., number of issues, pages, subscriptions, etc.) and cost elements (e.g., cost per page of editing, set-up cost per issue, postage cost per issue copy mailed, etc.). …
Designing The Future Of Electronic Journals With Lessons Learned From The Past: Economic And Use Patterns Of Scientific Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
Designing The Future Of Electronic Journals With Lessons Learned From The Past: Economic And Use Patterns Of Scientific Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Studies of thousands of both university and non-university scientists demonstrate the importance of scholarly journals to their work. Amount of reading has remained high and scientists who read more, are more successful. Readings have shifted from personal subscriptions to more readings from library provided journals. Personal subscriptions have gone down from 5.8 subscriptions per scientist in 1977 to about 2.9 subscriptions. The drop is due to the rising prices of subscriptions, prices that have increased beyond inflation rates. Processing costs decrease some with electronic journals, but the high fixed costs associated with creating scholarly journals are the same for print …
Managing Scientific Journals In A Digital Era, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
Managing Scientific Journals In A Digital Era, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Special librarians would do well to examine present trends in electronic publishing. This would guide them in the efficient management of electronically published scientific journals and the avoidance of costly mistakes in the pricing and acquisitions of such scholarly studies.
Setting The Record Straight On Journal Publishing: Myth Vs. Reality., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
Setting The Record Straight On Journal Publishing: Myth Vs. Reality., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Attempts to expose some of the myths that stand in the way of a better future for scholarly publishing. Traditional print journals and electronic publishing; Showing the myth and the reality; The myth that libraries have become irrelevant to scientists; The myth that scientists cancel personal subscriptions because they do not need the journals; The myth that storage and communication of electronic journals are free; The dispelling of other myths.