Scientific electronic journals - State of the art and perspectives on user-oriented design

Journal/Book: Nachr Dok. 1997; 48: Postfach 40 06, Havelstr 9, D-6100 Darmstadt 1, Germany. Verlag Hoppenstedt & Co. 137-149.

Abstract: At present, the potentials of electronic publishing are discussed primarily in the context of scientific journals. Information specialists in science, publishing and librarianship are discussing the possibilities of providing journals via telecommunication networks or CD-ROM. Scientific societies, publishing companies as well as the scientist himself put a growing number of electronic journals on the market. Against this background, the paper describes the development and the state of the art of scientific electronic journals. Doing this, the essay focusses on the functions of scientific journals and on user studies, which allow first conclusions about a user-oriented design of electronic journals.

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Keyword(s): SCHOLARLY JOURNALS; READERS; ARTICLES; TEXT

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