"TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS": PSYC Call for Book Reviewers

PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS: Tenopir/King: Towards Electronic Journals Below is the Abstract of "Towards Electronic Journals" by Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King. This book has been selected for multiple review in Psycoloquy, a refereed journal of Open Peer Commentary in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. If you wish to submit a formal book review please write to psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the book if you were selected to review it. (If you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY or Behavioral & Brain Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a copy of your CV to your inquiry.) If you are selected as one of the reviewers and do not have a copy of the book, you will be sent a copy of the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if you have a copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without invitation, but all reviews will be refereed. The author will reply to all accepted reviews. FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/ FULL ARTICLE-LENGTH PRECIS OF THE BOOK IS RETRIEVABLE FROM: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084 Note: Psycoloquy reviews are of the BOOK not the Precis. Review Length should be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short abstract (about 50 words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full name and institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All references that are electronically accessible should also have URLs. AUTHORS' RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING MULTIPLE REVIEW: We would like scientists as authors, readers, editors, referees and observers of the coming electronic age to review the book through their personal experiences and knowledge, which they think confirm, reinforce, or refute our observations. We would also appreciate comments on our interpretation of results. We look at the book as a stepping-stone in our further study of electronic journals. Input from scientists is particularly desired for our future study. psycoloquy.00.11.084.electronic-journals.1.tenopir Sun Jun 18 2000 ISSN 1055-0143 (53 paragraphs, 7 references, 954 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 2000 Carol Tenopir & Donald W. King TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: REALITIES FOR SCIENTISTS, LIBRARIANS, AND PUBLISHERS [Special Libraries Association 2000, xxii + 488pp ISBN 0-87111-507-7] Precis of Tenopir on Electronic-Journals Carol Tenopir School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 804 Volunteer Boulevard Knoxville, TN 37919 tenopir(a)utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~tenopir/tenopir.html Donald W. King 4915 Gullane Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48103 dwking(a)umich.edu ABSTRACT: This precis of "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King 2000) focuses mostly on scientists' perspective as authors and readers, how changes over the years by publishers and librarians have affected scientists, and what they should expect from electronic journal and digital journal article databases. We describe some myths concerning scholarly journals and attempt to assess the future in a realistic manner. Most of our primary data involves U.S. scientists, libraries and publishers, but much of the secondary data is from a European perspective, which shows few differences. KEYWORDS: copyright, citation impact, digital library, electronic archives, electronic publishing, electronic journals, peer review, publication costs, research funding OVERVIEW OF CONTENTS: "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King 2000) is addressed to four audiences: scientists as authors and readers; journal publishers; librarians and other intermediaries; and organizational funders of scientists and libraries. An attempt was made: (1) to describe the communication practices of scientists, librarians, and publishers; (2) to establish their goals, motives, and incentives for the way in which they do things; and (3) to determine the cost and other economic aspects of their involvement. In particular, we felt it important for each journal system participant to gain a better understanding and appreciation of the contributions made by all participants and to enable them to make more informed decisions about electronic journals in the future. To achieve these objectives we partitioned the book into five parts, in addition to an introduction. A background part provides a summary of the quantitative results, a brief history of scientific scholarly journals including early electronic publishing, a framework for describing scholarly journals as a system embedded in larger communication and science systems, and a description of our data collection methods. Data include results from 13,591 readership survey responses from scientists (1977 to 1998); more than 100 cost studies of library services, publishing, and scientists' authorship and information seeking; a study of the characteristics of a sample of 715 scholarly journals tracked from 1960 to 1995; and review of more than 800 relevant publications. The next three parts address the principal participants: (1) scientists, including their general communication activities and journal authorship, readership and information-seeking patterns; (2) libraries, including general library use and journal-related services use and economics; and (3) publishers, including journal publishing costs, pricing, and financial considerations. The last part covers electronic publishing details and aspects appropriate to each of the journal system participants. Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000) Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association. http://www.sla.org FULL PRECIS IS RETRIEVABLE FROM: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084 FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/