E-journal and Open Access Journal Publishing in the Humanities: Preliminary Results from a Survey among Byzantine Studies Scholars Victoria Tsoukala, PhD.

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E-journal and Open Access Journal Publishing in the Humanities: Preliminary Results from a Survey among Byzantine Studies Scholars Victoria Tsoukala, PhD ● Evi Sachini, PhD National Documentation Centre/NHRF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Integrated Information September 30, Kos island

National Documentation Centre (EKT) National Facility for the aggregation, documentation of Science and Technology content and for information and support services on science, research and technology issues ( Part of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) Core activities: strengthen and support digitally enabled research – research e-infrastructure for content that includes e-journals, developed in collaboration with the scientific publishers (research institutes and scientific societies).

Emphasis in the Humanities Enhance e-research (Humanists still heavily rely on the print medium) Digitize and preserve content Make content widely available (open access) Improve rate of penetration of research produced in Greek with regional (mostly Hellenic) focus in international literature Thus far 5 e-journals (3 peer-reviewed, 2 newsletters) 4 more peer-reviewed by end of more by the end of e-books

Byzantina Symmeikta Flagship journal, first e-journal for EKT, first fully online and openly accessible e-journal in the Humanities in Greece

Byzantina Symmeikta Survey 5 September to 5 December 2010 Aims – Assess needs and satisfaction from e-journal online operation – Assess scholarly attitudes about and practices in publishing in e-journals and open access journals among scholars in Byzantine Studies

Survey and Responses Online survey – s invitation with dedicated links to 1488 individuals in Greece and abroad. – Available online at the journal’s website. Responses – 133= 8.93% (via ) – 25 online – total =10.6%.

Respondent profiles

Country of residence/work

Respondent age groups

Respondent professional rank

Use of e-journals

Frequency All results Greece

Frequency by rank All results Greece

Very ImportantImportantIndifferentNot very important Not important Addition of data and data sets to articles 17.4%40.4%25.7%10.1%6.4% Ability to annotate papers online and save annotations 15.6%46.8%21.1%12.8%3.7% Ability to link to cited items in the text and/or bibliography 42.6%41.7%13.0%1.7%0.9% Ability to comment on papers7.2%30.6% 24.3%7.2% Download articles to your computer 66.9%28.0%2.5% 0.0 Download articles to e-book reader or smartphone 17.0%25.9%27.7%14.3%15.2% Printing of articles55.1%30.5%8.5%4.2%1.7% Ability to export bibliographies from articles 27.7%53.8%12.6%5.0%0.8% Article-level usage statistics7.2%28.8%37.8%13.5%12.6% Information about works citing an article published in the journal 23.0%47.8%17.7%8.8%2.7% Links to work citing an article published in the journal 34.7%50.0%11.0%3.4%0.8% Value of e-journal features

E-journal and Open access journal publishing: attitudes and practices

Would publish E-journals Have published

Open access journals Would publish Have published

Have published in e-journals and OA journals: age groups E-journalsOA journals

Conclusion Optimism: re: e-publishing and OA publishing in the Byzantine Studies, many more developments soon Positive attitudes but much less actual experience More developments in e-scholarship to be expected But…… Changes in established disciplinary cultures also required

Thank you!