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Electronic Journals What Are You Really Getting ?

Carol Tenopir

University of Tennessee

ctenopir@utk.edu

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Main Questions:

• Is the title I need available electronically?

• What is included in the e-version?

• Can I cancel print?

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Periodicals

Number of online refereed scholarly periodicals ~12,000

Number of refereed scholarly periodicals ~15,000

Total number of periodicals ~250,000

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Print and Electronic Subscriptions at a U.S. University

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Source: Montgomery and King, “Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections” in D-Lib October 2002. Available at http://wwww.dlib.org/dlib/october02/montgomery/10montgomery.html

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Useful Publications

• Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists, Editors, Dru W. Mogge and Peter Budka. ARL, 2000.

• Fulltext Sources Online. Edited by Donald T. Hawkins and Mary B. Glose. Medford, NJ: Information Today, twice yearly.

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Growth in Peer ReviewedE-Journals

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Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists, Editors, Dru W. Mogge and Peter Budka. ARL, 2000

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Growth in Full Text Sources

Fulltext Sources Online. Edited by Donald T. Hawkins and Mary B. Glose. Medford, NJ: Information Today, twice yearly

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Major Scholarly Electronic Publishers

• Elsevier Science Direct: 1,200

• BertelsmannSpringer: 650

• Blackwell Publishing: 600

• Project Muse: 200

• American Chemical Society: 30

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Major Electronic Journal Aggregators (General)

• OCLC ECO: 4,000

• EBSCOhost: 8,338

• ProQuest: 5,500

• Gale Group: 9,000

• H.W. Wilson: 10,000

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Major Electronic Journal Aggregators (Specialized)

• JSTOR: 240

• OVID: 800

• PubMed Central: 51

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Major Electronic Journal Aggregators (News & Business)

• LexisNexis

• Dialog

• Factiva

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Free (or partially free) Journal Aggregators

• www.findarticles.com

• ejournal.coalliance.org/

• highwire.stanford.edu

• http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov

• www.arXiv.org

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Major Models

• Journal Model

• Article Model

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Journal Model

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Article Model

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

1 2 3 4 5

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

1 2 3 4 5

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

1 2 3 4 5

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

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Electronic Journals

Paper byproduct

Text only

Document delivery

Linked to indexing

Electronic only

Multimedia

Interactive

Direct from publisher

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Category 1

Paper byproduct, text only, document delivery, linked to indexing, full text searching, from aggregator articles model.

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Dialog ASCII Sample

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Category 2

Text and graphics of full articles, image, document delivery, linked to indexing, print still dominant, usually from aggregator article model

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ProQuest PDF Document

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Category 3

Electronic journals, print still dominant, most of journal is online (e.g., ads, letters), may be less than print, from publisher, journal model

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Library Journalhttp://www.libraryjournal.com

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Category 4

Electronic journals, offer same or more than print, print still available, multimedia, interactivity, may be limited, from publisher, journal model

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Chemical & Engineering Newshttp://pubs.acs.org/cen/

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Category 5

Fully electronic, no print, multimedia, interactive, direct from publisher, journal model

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D-Lib Magazinehttp://www.dlib.org

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Category 6

• Fully electronic

• Direct from authors

• E-print archives

• Article model

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arXiv.orghttp://www.arxiv.org

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Three Main Economic Choices

1. With Traditional Publishers

2. New Relationship with Publishers

3. Without Traditional Publishers

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With Traditional Publishers

• Society Publishers 23%

• Commercial Publishers 40%

• Other 21%

• Educational 16%

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New Relationships

• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

• BioMed Central

• Public Library of Science

• Budapest Open Archives Initiative

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Without Traditional Publishers

• Institutional Repositories (“University Archiving”)

• Self-Archiving

• E-Print Service (e.g., arXiv.org)

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Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads

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