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Journal of Elecronic Publishing

David Green (david@ninch.org)
Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:14:34 -0400 

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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:14:34 -0400
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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
September 5, 1997



JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING RE-FURBISHED


Under a new editor, Judith Axler Turner, the JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC
PUBLISHING has resumed publication with a new issue, focusing on how and
why some e-journals have come into being and what they offer beyond hard
copy.

The JEP is published by the University of Michigan Press, is free and
available online at <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep>.

Apart from the articles cited below in the new issue, readers will probably
also be interested in the re-print of Malcolm Getz' paper, "An Economic
Perspective on E-Publishing in Academia,"
<http://www.press.umich.edu:80/jep/03-01/getz.html>, delivered this April
at the Scholarly Communication and Technology conference, organized by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at Emory University.


David Green

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Contact:
Colin Day
313-764-4388; colinday@umich.edu
Judith Axler Turner
202-986-3463; judith@turner.net


    NEW ISSUE OF The Journal of Electronic Publishing NOW AVAILABLE


September 1, 1997 -- You can't read it on the train, or make notes in the
margin. You can't tear out an article to put in your files. You have to buy
an expensive machine, learn a confusing interface, and master a cranky
connection even to open it up.

So why does anyone publish a scholarly peer-reviewed journal
electronically?

Editors of eight electronic-only peer-reviewed scholarly journals answer
that question in the latest edition of The Journal of Electronic
Publishing, available now at <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep>. JEP is
published by the University of Michigan Press.

JEP has a new design, a new format, and a host of new articles (including
reviews JEP itself, and brave commentary by a librarian who wants to invest
in article futures and by a university-press leader who prefers paper). The
JEP reincarnation has come with the editorship of Judith Axler Turner, who
sharpened her e-publishing teeth creating the online version of The
Chronicle of Higher Education.

The September issue of this sparkling online quarterly is entitled

     ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: Why? --   A look at how eight e-journals
     came about, and what they offer that you can't get in print

 The invited feature articles are:

         ACM's Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
         "Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice"
                by Bernard M. E. Moret
                      ACM

            Earth Interactions
        "Transcending the Limitations of the Printed Page"
                by Judy C. Holoviak
                      American Geophysical Union
                and Keith L. Seitter
                      American Meteorological Association

            The Electronic Journal of Cognitive and Brain Science
        "Democracy Replaces Peer Review in an All-Electronic Journal"
                by Zoltan Nadasdy
                      Rutgers University

            First Monday
        "Waiting for Thomas Kuhn"
                by Edward J. Valauskas
                      Internet Mechanics

            Living Reviews in Relativity
        "Making an Electronic Journal Live"
                by Jennifer Wheary
                and Bernard Schutz
                      Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

        Public-Access Computer Systems Review
        "Testing the Promise"
                by Pat Ensor
                and Thomas C. Wilson
                      University of Houston Libraries

            RSNA EJ
        "Beyond Paper Images: Radiology on the Web"
                by Laurens V. Ackerman
                      Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
                and Alphonse Simonaitis
                      RSNA

        TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
        "A Modern Experiment in Studying the Ancients"
                by James R. Adair, Jr.
                      Scholars Press

In addition, the issue includes invited articles by Mike Cuenca, William
Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of
Kansas; Paul M. Gherman, Vanderbilt University; Peter Grenquist, New
York University; and Thom Lieb, Towson University.

JEP is continuing its effort to find and reprint articles important to
electronic publishing that have appeared elsewhere. The September issue
includes an excerpt from conference proceedings in textual scholarship, an
article on the economics of online publishing, and an article on how
electronic publishing supports the Muslim diaspora community.

JEP welcomes submissions of original articles for peer review, and of
articles that have appeared elsewhere that are of interest to JEP's unique
audience, publishers, authors, and scholars interested in the
online-publishing environment.

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