1st Edition

Electronic Expectations Science Journals on the Web

By Tony Stankus Copyright 2000
204 Pages
by CRC Press

204 Pages
by CRC Press

Explore the future of Internet-based Science Journals! Electronic Expectations: Science Journals on the Web chronicles the convergence of financial, technical, and public policy considerations that turned what seemed like science fiction twenty years ago into a library fact of life today. The book shows that while electronic publication greatly speeds issuance of important scientific results of... Read more
Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Key Trends Emerging in the First Decade of Electronic Journals in the Sciences
  • A Review of the Print Journal System in the Sciences, with Prospects for Improvement in Deficiencies and Costs Through Electronic Publishing: Practices and Attitudes of Publishers and Printers, Librarians, and Scientific Authors
  • The Business and Technological Warfare Affecting the Internet and Electronic Journals: Terminology of Major Hardware and Software Components and Competing Strategies of Major Players
  • Electronic Journal Concerns and Strategies of Science Publishers
  • Electronic Journal Concerns and Strategies for Aggregators: Subscription Services, Indexing/Abstracting Services, and Electronic Bibliographic Utilities
  • The Best Original Scientific Research, Review, Methods, and Symposia Journals with Their Current Web Addresses Ranked Within Their Primary Subject Category
  • Index

Biography

Tony Stankus