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The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. J. Mackenzie Owen

    1. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  • In-depth study of electronic journals
  • Timely contribution to the ongoing debate about scientific publishing
  • One of the few empirical rather than speculative contributions to the field

Part of the book series: Information Science and Knowledge Management (ISKM, volume 11)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. INTRODUCTION

    • J. Mackenzie Owen
    Pages 1-22

  3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

    • J. Mackenzie Owen
    Pages 23-43

  4. THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    • J. Mackenzie Owen
    Pages 45-92

  5. THE DIGITIZATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES

    • J. Mackenzie Owen
    Pages 93-130

  6. THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL 1987-2004

    • J. Mackenzie Owen
    Pages 131-190

  7. DIGITIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

    • J. Mackenzie Owen
    Pages 191-225

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 227-264
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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.

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  • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    J. Mackenzie Owen

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