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New Web Services That Help Authors Choose Journals, Amy Louise Forrester, Bo-Christer Björk, Carol Tenopir
New Web Services That Help Authors Choose Journals, Amy Louise Forrester, Bo-Christer Björk, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
The motivations for an author to choose a journal to submit to are complex and include factors relating to impact and prestige, service quality, and publication costs and policies. Authors require information about multiple characteristics of journals that may be difficult to obtain. This article compares and contrasts the new author-oriented journal comparison tools and services that have emerged to assist researchers in this important step of the scholarly publishing process. Many of these tools combine factors to provide full web-based manuscript submission decision tools, however all have limitations that reduce their usefulness.
The Database Press, Carol Tenopir
The Database Press, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Online Inc, Learned Information Inc and Meckler Corp each publish books, journals and AV materials about database searching. The companies's publications are described.
Online Searching In Schools, Carol Tenopir
Online Searching In Schools, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Discusses the importance of online searching in schools in the U.S. Hesitation of school librarians to introduce students to online searching; Compilation of information about online searching in schools by Ann Lathrop, library coordinator of San Mateo County Office of Education; Alternative to online access for schools; Benefits of online searching.
Systems For End Users: Are There End Users For The Systems?, Carol Tenopir
Systems For End Users: Are There End Users For The Systems?, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Focuses on the sixth national meeting on online information search systems held in the Spring of 1985 in New York. User-friendly substitutes for system manuals and documentation; Proliferation of online hosts; Introduction of menu option for assessment of system.
Online Searching In The Popular Literature, Carol Tenopir
Online Searching In The Popular Literature, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Comments on issues relevant to the use of online searching tools and technology in popular literature. Online database searching challenges; Overview of articles that indicate the insufficiency of online tools.
Pricing Policies, Carol Tenopir
Pricing Policies, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Surveys database and online systems pricing policies and explores ramifications for searchers. SDC Information Service's billing charge for its ORBIT search service; NLM MEDLINE; Mead Data Central's pricing policy for LEXIS and NEXIS; CAS ONLINE by Chemical Abstracts Service; BRS and DIALOG; Search strategy.