Kim HJ "The transition from paper to electronic journals: Key factors that affect scholars' acceptance of electronic journals" Serials Librarian 41(1):31-64 2001
Eugene Garfield
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Hak Joon Kim : Kim at SouthernCT.edu
Title The transition from paper to electronic journals: Key factors
that affect scholars' acceptance of electronic journals
Author Kim HJ
JOURNAL SERIALS LIBRARIAN 41 (1): 31-64 2001
Document
type: Review Language: English
Cited References: 278 Times Cited: 0
Abstract:
The primary purpose of this paper is to investigate what factors crucially
affect scholar's acceptance of e-journals. Before reviewing various aspects
of e-journals, it is necessary to fully understand the traditional journal
system, because the developments, roles, and deficiencies of the paper
journal system will illustrate some basic requirements for successful
e-journals. This article also examines the developments of e-journals and
presents a comprehensive examination of the economic, technological and
cognitive, and sociological aspects of e-journals based upon an extensive
literature review. With regard to the economic and technological and
ognitive aspects, the benefits of scholarly e-journal publishing appear to
be, by and large, favorable to the transition from paper to electronic
journals. However, the major stumbling block is the credibility of scholarly
e-journals. Whether or not scholars can obtain the same recognition or
rewards through e-journal publication as they obtain through paper journal
publication must be one of the key factors that affect scholar's acceptance
of e-journals.
Author Keywords:
electronic journals,,journal system, journal functions, scientific reward
system, scholarly
communication
KeyWords Plus:
INTERJUDGMENTAL RELIABILITY, INFORMATION-SCIENCE, PUBLICATION,
COMMUNICATION, MANUSCRIPTS, REFEREES, ARTICLES, SERIALS, LIBRARY, BIAS
Addresses:
Kim HJ, So Connecticut State Univ, Sch Commun Informat & Lib Sci, New Haven,
CT 06515 USA
So Connecticut State Univ, Sch Commun Informat & Lib Sci, New Haven, CT
06515 USA
Publisher:
HAWORTH PRESS INC, BINGHAMTON
IDS Number:
501WC
ISSN:
0361-526X
EXCERPT FROM PAPER :
CONCLUSIONS:
This paper has examined the feasibility and acceptability of scholarly
e-journals in terms of their economic, technological and cognitive, and
sociological aspects. With regard to the economic and technological and
cognitive aspects, the benefits of scholarly e-journal publishing appear to
be, by and large, favorable to the transition from the paper to the
electronic medium. However, the major stumbling b lock is the credibility
of scholarly e-journals.
Despite the fact that many scholarly e-journals have already implemented the
process of peer review for quality control as a conventional paper journal
does, the results of surveys indicate that most people perceive that the
qualities of articles published in the electronic medium are generally lower
than those published in the conventional paper medium. Moreover, since
there is no guarantee that formal academic rewards will be granted to
scholars who publish in e-journals, those who have to worry about their
career advancement in terms of tenure or promotion tend not to publish their
papers in e-journals.
Therefore, there is a possibility that scholarly e-journals will be
differently accepted by scholars according to their career levels unless
their academic reward system fully embraces e-journal publication. This
would have a negative impact upon the ultimate integration of the e-journal
into the formal system of scholarly communication.
In order to be fully accepted by the academic reward system, the
effectiveness of the peer review process of e-journals must first be
empirically substantiated. Since no empirical research in regard to the
peer review process of scholarly e-journals has been done, there is no way
to determine how rigorous, reliable, and valid the peer review process
implemented in scholarly e-journals is. It is clear that without reliance
on the quality of e-journal publication the academic reward system will
never fully embrace e-journal publications.
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