About ARL-EJOURNAL

ABOUT THE ARL-EJOURNAL FORUM:

ARL-EJOURNAL is a discussion list concerned with all aspects of the management of electronic journals by libraries and information centers. It was conceived during a roundtable discussion led by Sharon Cline McKay at the LITA/LAMA Conference in Pittsburgh, PA in October, 1996, where issues were identified and those attending agreed that there was a need for further discussion.

The address of the forum is: ARL-EJOURNAL@ARL.ORG

The major issues discussed during the session are listed below. These and other related topics are appropriate for discussion on ARL-EJOURNAL.

Archiving
Pricing
Licensing
Indexing
File formats
Use of the SICI (Serial Item and Contribution Identifier)
Administering
Registration by username/password or IP address
Article access
Security
Privacy
Multiple user interfaces
Whether to cancel subscriptions for print versions of e-journals
Links to ILS systems
Hypertext links within articles
Links to index & abstract databases
Interlibrary lending restrictions
Printing/storing e-journals
Changing concept of "journal"
Peer review/quality/tenure
Bypassing the library?

General discussions of acquiring, cataloging, checking in and managing of serials should be directed to SERIALST or ACQNET-L. Advertisements and/or vendor announcements should not be distributed on ARL-EJOURNAL. Only subscribers to ARL-EJOURNAL may post messages to the list.

All interested parties are invited and encouraged to subscribe and participate.

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