Technology and Scholarly Communication

  PREFACE

 expand sectionINTRODUCTION:  ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING, DIGITAL LIBRARIES, AND THE SCHOLARLY ENVIRONMENT

 collapse sectionPART ONE—  TECHNOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS
 expand sectionChapter 1—  Making Technology Work for Scholarship  Investing in the Data
 expand sectionChapter 2—  Digital Image Quality  From Conversion to Presentation and Beyond
 expand sectionChapter 3—  The Transition to Electronic Content Licensing  The Institutional Context in 1997

 collapse sectionPART TWO—  ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: EMPIRICAL STUDIES
 expand sectionChapter 4—  Information-Based Productivity
 expand sectionChapter 5—  Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals  Are There Savings?
 expand sectionChapter 6—  Electronic Publishing in Academia  An Economic Perspective
 expand sectionChapter 7—  JSTOR  The Development of a Cost-Driven, Value-Based Pricing Model
 expand sectionChapter 8—  The Effect of Price:  Early Observations
 expand sectionChapter 9—  Electronic Publishing Is Cheaper
 Chapter 10—  Economics Of Electronic Publishing—Cost Issues  Comments on Part Two

 collapse sectionPART THREE—  USE OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND BOOKS: EMPIRICAL STUDIES
 expand sectionChapter 11—  Analysis of JSTOR  The Impact on Scholarly Practice of Access to On-line Journal Archives
 expand sectionChapter 12—  Patterns of Use for the Bryn Mawr Reviews
 expand sectionChapter 13—  The Crosscurrents of Technology Transfer  The Czech and Slovak Library Information Network
 expand sectionChapter 14—  Consortial Access versus Ownership
 Chapter 15—  The Use of Electronic Scholarly Journals  Models of Analysis and Data Drawn from the Project MUSE Experience at Johns Hopkins University
 collapse sectionChapter 16—  A New Consortial Model for Building Digital Libraries
 A Digital Delivery System
 Rights Management System
 A New Consortial Model
 A Payments System For The Consortium
 Data Collection
 Publishers And Digital Libraries
 Conclusions
 References
 Appendix A Consortial Standards
 TIFF
 Adobe PDF
 SICI (Serial Item and Contribution Identifier)
 expand sectionAppendix B Equipment Standards for End Users
 expand sectionAppendix C  Additional Hardware Specifications
 Appendix D System Transactions as Initiated by an End User
 expand sectionAppendix E  Scanning and Work Flow
 Appendix F  Technical Justification for a Digitization Standard for the Consortium
 expand sectionChapter 17—  On-line Books at Columbia  Early Findings on Use, Satisfaction, and Effect
 expand sectionChapter 18—  The Library and the University Press  Two Views of Costs and Problems in Scholarly Publishing

 collapse sectionPART FOUR—  VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
 expand sectionChapter 19—  Licensing, Copyright, and Fair Use  The Thesauron Project (Toward an ASCAP for Academics)
 Chapter 20—  Technical Standards and Medieval Manuscripts
 expand sectionChapter 21—  Digital Libraries  A Unifying or Distributing Force?
 expand sectionChapter 22—  Digital Documents and the Future of the Academic Community
 expand sectionChapter 23—  The Economics of Electronic Journals
 Chapter 24—  Cost and Value in Electronic Publishing
 expand sectionChapter 25—  The Future of Electronic Journals

 expand sectionNotes
  SUMMARY COMMENTS
  SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  CONTRIBUTORS
 expand sectionINDEX

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