Marketing Communications Presentation

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Texas Library Association April 1, 1998 San
Antonio, TX
Jacqueline H. Trolley Institute for Scientific
Information jtrolley_at_isinet.com
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Electronic Journal Initiatives and Some
Unresolved Issues A Snapshot
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• Electronic Journal Initiatives
• Economic Models
• - commercial primary publishers
• - university presses
• - professional societies
• - new aggregators/virtual community
• - database publishers

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• Some Issues
• - archiving
• - access in perpetuity
• - storage
• - legislative legal
• - standards

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• Commercial Primary Publisher
• Academic Press
• - IDEAL - 175 journal titles
• - consortia sale
• - maintain print collection

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• Commercial Primary Publishers
• Elsevier Science
• - EES - 1,100 journal titles
• - electronic data only
• - Science Direct
• - Web-based

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• University Presses
• John Hopkins University Press
• The Milton S. Eisenhower Library
• Harwood Academic Computing Center
• - Project Muse
• - humanities

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• Professional Society Publisher
• American Chemical Society
• - Web-based editions
• - Flexible pricing structure

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• Professional Society Publisher
• Optical Society of America
• - Optics Express
• - different economic model

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• Aggregators
• EBSCO
• Ebscohost
• - Bibliographic full-text
• - Integrated with other library
  
• services

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• Aggregators
• ChemWeb
• - Gateway
• BioMedNet
• - Virtual Community

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• Database Publisher
• Institute for Scientific Information
• - Resource Provider
• - Library
• - End-user
• - Linkages
• - Bidirectional access

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• Drawbacks
• Lack of standards
• - Format
• - Functionality
• - Identification
• - DOI, PII, SICI
• Remote access
• - Authorized users

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• Outstanding Issues
• Archiving
• Access in perpetuity
• Storage
• Legislative and legal
• Standards

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• Vendors Require
• Time
• Feedback