1. The Electronic Journal: Replica of the Printed Medium or a Innovative Platform for Scholarly Communication Alice Keller, ETH-Bibliothek Zurich Swets Blackwell Workshop Warsaw, March 2001

2. Replica of the Printed Medium

3. Online Medium with Enhanced Features

4. Interactive Platform with Innovative Features

5. Or, no peer-reviewed journals at all? Los Alamos E-Print Archive

6. Replica or Innovative Platform? EZB: January 2001: 8.000 Title entries –74% STM-Journals –26% Social Sciences, Art & Humanities –89% Doppelgänger (print + online publications) Will e-journals remain replicas of the printed medium or will they become innovative scholarly communication platforms?

7. Selected results from a Delphi-Survey „Future development of electronic journals“ (Jan-Dec 99) Round 3 Round 1Round 2 Feedback

8. The Expert Panel  International expert panel, 45 specialists

9. Selected Results of the Delphi Survey

10. Query: „Journals with peer review will represent the most important form of formal scholarly communication.“

11. Query: „The current situation with digital doppelgängers represents a transient period.“ (median: 2005)

12. Query: „When will all major subject areas be served by large preprint archives?“ (median: 2008, 20% never)

13. The Journal of the Future Customised collections of articles, put together according to the users’ personal interest profiles. Articles will be tagged with quality labels and stored in large knowledge environments. Articles will be replaced by dynamic information objects that represent versions of a paper over time.  All options are possible. Possibly along side each other.

14. Access model Agree 87,2% Don‘t agree 7,7% (Not valid: 5.1.%) Query: „Libraries will in future offer unrestricted access to core journals through license agreements and pay-per-use access to journals of secondary importance.“

15. - different publishing formats - different access models - different cost and pricing models Considering the variety of options and requirements it is likely that librarians will in future be confronted with a considerable range of - different publishing formats - different access models - different cost and pricing models Choosing the right option will be our challenge for the future

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