1. Publishing An e-Journal Whats Out There? UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based. Pres 2

2. 2 Electronic Publications Electronic Magazines Electronic Journals Webzines Electronic Newspapers

3. 3 Print Versus Electronic IT and Library Service department bulletins Library magazines EU project magazines Peer-reviewed journals http://www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/interact.htm http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/vision/2/

4. 4 Why Put It On The Web? Image and Publicity Accessibility To a wider audience World-wide Reduction of cost Reduction of production time and effort Functionality Searchability Links … Fewer limits on article size

5. 5 The Negative Aspects Hard work You need trained staff to achieve a good magazine Loss of some audience Money Archiving Control of Information Change of Culture

6. 6 Case Study - Cultivate Int. Cultivate Interactive - EU project magazine Was released on July 3rd 2000 Issue published every 3 months To date 100+ articles plus news & events, jobs, games, editorial, competition Followed design guidelines http://www.cultivate-int.org/ 1

7. 7 Technology The technology used to provide Cultivate Interactive: Windows NT 4 MS Site Server 3.0 IIS 4.0 which provides: Advanced search capabilities Metadata management using Microsoft Active Server pages (ASP) Server-Side Includes (SSI) 2

8. 8 Information Dissemination Email message to mailing lists Press releases to a number of magazines / E-zines Following up referrals for Exploit Interactive - a previous Web magazine Submission to search engines Poster sessions given at conferences Additional presentations and workshops planned, article in LA Record 3

9. 9 Value-Added Features User Feedback - Peer Review Discussion lists Interactive games Statistics Database linking Personalisation Externally-Hosted Web services Automation of publishing functions http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue18/web-magazine/intro.html

10. 10 Example - Statistics Hit parades Externally hosted Web stats http://www.bmj.com/hitparade/ http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/statistics/

11. 11 Example - Feedback Feedback forms Polls http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rdf/?dwzone=xml http://www.bmj.com/misc/strawpolls.shtml

12. 12 Example Magazines See the workshop home page for example magazines: