electronic journal
Electronic journals are scholarly journals or magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. They are a specialized form of electronic document: they have the purpose of providing material for academic research and study, they are formatted approximately like printed journal articles, the metadata is entered
into specialized databases, such as DOAJ or OACI as well as the databases for the discipline, and they are predominantly available through
academic libraries and special
Some electronic journals are online-only journals; some are online versions of printed journals, and some consist of the online equivalent of a printed journal, but with additional online-only material.
Most commercial sites are subscription-based, or allow pay-per-view access. Many universities subscribe to electronic journals to provide access to their students and faculty, and it is generally also possible for individuals to subscribe. An increasing number of journals are now available as open access journals, requiring no subscription. Most working paper archives and articles on personal homepages are free, as are collections in institutional repositories and subject repositories.
Most electronic journals are published both in HTML and PDF formats, but some are available in only one of the two. Some early electronic journals were
first published in
References
- [http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/ the standard international listserv for libraries and publishers on serials licensing, pricing, and supply.
- National Electronic Article Repository proposal from the Association of Research Libraries
- ACM format standards for electronic articles
- Carol Tenopir and Donald King, Towards electronic JournalsSpecial Libraries Association, 2000. ISBN 0871115077
See also
External links
- E-journals.org, including journals and other serial publications
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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