For examples of traditional journal publishers, see Project Muse at http://muse.jhu.edu
For examples of electronic texts on the internet see The Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/alex-index.html or The On-line Books Page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html.
[4] These statistics are based on the output of the University of California program wwwstat as applied to the EJS monthly log files. The program is is available free to the general public http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/wwwstat.
[5] The Yahoo index of sociology is located at http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Sociology/Journals.
To get to the Yahoo index home page, leave of the last portion of the url and enter http://www.yahoo.com
[6] A graphical representation of this point is provided by data collected by ARL. The page and related graphs are available available http://viva.lib.Virginia.EDU/arlstats/1994/graphs.html and http://viva.lib.Virginia.EDU/arlstats/1994/arl941.gif.
[7] In math, for example, the number of papers published doubles every 10-15 years (Odlyzko, 1994).
[8] As libraries reduce their acquisitions budgets, publishers feel pressure as well. This has resulted in the elimination of specialist lines of literature which are useful to small academic communities but which cannot regain the cost of their publication (Vance, 1994).
[9] For a detailed discussion of the costs of publishing paper journals, see (Odlyzko, 1994).
[10] A number of commentators have called for empirical research into the remuneration practices of the scholarly press in order to substantiate their claims that editors and editorial boards are not paid for their services. It seems a useful and timely project.
[11] For an in-depth discussion of these issues, see the e-mail interchange between Lorrin Garson, Steve Harnad and Paul Ginsparg (Garson, 1994).
[12] PERL stands for Practical Extraction and Resource Language. Information about the language is available from the WWW page Perl Resources at http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~rseymour/perl/ or from the page Perl Information and Pointers at http://ajs.com/perl/. The book Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz (1993) is an excellent and easy to understand introduction to the language.
[13] Many older documents on the Internet retain their original ASCII formatting. However this is becoming less of a problem since the new generation of WWW browsers like Mosaic, WebBrowser, and Netscape, satisfactorily format these plain document for printing.
[14] The EJS maintains a collection of search engines at http://olympus.lang.arts.ualberta.ca:8010/resource.htm. Probably the best search engine available is the The Open Text Index at http://www.opentext.com:8080/
[15] Indeed, if the Electronic Text initiative at the University of Virginia Library is any indication, it will be libraries and librarians that will be at the cutting edge of electronic publication. This is perhaps appropriate in that libraries have been the traditional repository for textual material.
[16] The ancillary benefits emerge when the EJS is not dependent on one institution. When the EJS exists at the University of Alberta, McMaster university, and perhaps a half dozen other international cites, it is much more difficult for any one institution to exert pre-emptive authority on the journal. In this way we hope to “institutionalize” a structure that is more responsive to the needs of the academic community by being less sensitive to administrative and bureaucratic requirements. Of course, this problematizes institutional funding. We are still evaluating whether the trade of is worthwhile.
[17] RTF stands for Rich Text Format and is a wordprocessor format used by microsoft to increase the mobility of documents between different platforms and different environments. However the format of individual documents are less of a concern now than they once were since most standard wordprocessor application packages provide file conversion filters to enable users to convert all the major document formats. Unfortunately, not all wordprocessor packages are created equal and some do a better job of converting alien file formats than others.
[18] Stephen Hilliard (1995) provides a short, whimsical look at some of the issues surrounding electronic publication.
[19] The EJS statistics program keeps monthly totals of the number of people viewing the journal, and the number of people viewing each issue. Because of the way the log files are set up these are only estimates. However our program is designed to underestimate access to the EJS.
[20] de Kerckhove’s writing is classic and I just can’t resist quoting some of his material to illustrate my point. Speaking about the “wiring” of society and some of the competing models for the delivery of networked services, de Kerckhove concludes that…
Ideally people will be able to choose – and pay for – how much bandwidth and how many bits (that is, units of information per second) they need, at any time, in the course of their communication. This is called the “pay-per-bit” or “bandwidth-on-demand” marketing that appeals to the more enlightened critics as the most democratic and the most economically efficient way of wiring the country (de Kerckhove, 1995: 57: Italics added)
Just what this fellows thought processeses were when he concluded that enlightened critics prefer pay-per view is unknown and probably unfathomable. At the very least, his comments miss a classic discussion of these issues by Vincent Mosco in 1989.
On the “nature” of the internet, de Kerckove suggests that what everyone else would think of as network of computers, or an information highway, isn’t really. He suggests that “The internet is really a brain, a collective, living brain clicking as you read” (Ibid: 55).
Finally, his fetishistic engagement with technology is amusing – if overly sexual – and just a bit disturbing. He writes of his first encounter with a fax machine in 1972 “It seemed to kiss the telephone and whisper a written message it its ear.” (p. 1)
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