1 Electronic Journals What Are You Really Getting ? Carol Tenopir University of Tennessee

2 Main Questions: Is the title I need available electronically? What is included in the e-version? Can I cancel print?

3 Periodicals Number of online refereed scholarly periodicals ~12,000 Number of refereed scholarly periodicals ~15,000 Total number of periodicals ~250,000

4 Print and Electronic Subscriptions at a U.S. University Source: Montgomery and King, “Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections” in D-Lib October Available at

5 Useful Publications Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists, Editors, Dru W. Mogge and Peter Budka. ARL, Fulltext Sources Online. Edited by Donald T. Hawkins and Mary B. Glose. Medford, NJ: Information Today, twice yearly.

6 Growth in Peer Reviewed E-Journals Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists, Editors, Dru W. Mogge and Peter Budka. ARL, 2000

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

8 Major Scholarly Electronic Publishers Elsevier Science Direct: 1,200 BertelsmannSpringer: 650 Blackwell Publishing: 600 Project Muse: 200 American Chemical Society: 30

9 Major Electronic Journal Aggregators (General) OCLC ECO: 4,000 EBSCOhost: 8,338 ProQuest: 5,500 Gale Group: 9,000 H.W. Wilson: 10,000

10 Major Electronic Journal Aggregators (Specialized) JSTOR: 240 OVID: 800 PubMed Central: 51

11 Major Electronic Journal Aggregators (News & Business) LexisNexis Dialog Factiva

12 Free (or partially free) Journal Aggregators ejournal.coalliance.org/ highwire.stanford.edu

13 Major Models Journal Model Article Model

14 Journal Model

15 Article Model

16 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

17 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

18 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

19 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

20 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

21 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

22 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

23 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

24 Electronic Journals Paper byproduct Text only Document delivery Linked to indexing Electronic only Multimedia Interactive Direct from publisher

25 Category 1 Paper byproduct, text only, document delivery, linked to indexing, full text searching, from aggregator articles model. 1

26 Dialog ASCII Sample

27 Category 2 Text and graphics of full articles, image, document delivery, linked to indexing, print still dominant, usually from aggregator article model 2

28 ProQuest PDF Document

29 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 3

30 Library Journal

31 Category 4 Electronic journals, offer same or more than print, print still available, multimedia, interactivity, may be limited, from publisher, journal model 4

32 Chemical & Engineering News

33 Category 5 Fully electronic, no print, multimedia, interactive, direct from publisher, journal model 5

34 D-Lib Magazine

35 Category 6 Fully electronic Direct from authors E-print archives Article model

36 arXiv.org

37 Three Main Economic Choices 1.With Traditional Publishers 2. New Relationship with Publishers 3. Without Traditional Publishers

38 With Traditional Publishers Society Publishers 23% Commercial Publishers 40% Other 21% Educational 16%

39 New Relationships SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) BioMed Central Public Library of Science Budapest Open Archives Initiative

40 Without Traditional Publishers Institutional Repositories (“University Archiving”) Self-Archiving E-Print Service (e.g., arXiv.org)

41 Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads SPARC Society Publishers Commercial Publishers BioMed Central Institutional Repositories E-Print Service Self-Archives

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