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....Electronic publishing was originally considered as a conversion of existing paper based journals into the electronic form for the purpose of reducing production costs, achieving faster dissemination of content and providing 24x7 availability. Interest in electronic publishing in early works (e.g. [27]) was fueled by the potential for cheap, fast and low quality electronic publications to drive established publications out of business with detrimental effects on the research community. Indeed, early electronic publications were mostly unrefereed repositories or automatic archives, such as [16] ....

A. M. Odlyzko, "Tragic loss or good riddance? The impending demise of traditional scholarly journal", Notices Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 42 (Jan. 1995).

....The purpose is not to present a definitive and exhaustive list, but rather to give a flavor for how a scholar centered design approach could fruitfully contribute to archive design. Interacting with a Community Being a scholar has become increasingly complex over the last 50 years (Bush 1945; Odlyzko 1995). The number of scholarly publications, both articles and journal offerings, is increasing at an exponential rate and this rate of increase is being driven by growth in the overall number of researchers (Odlyzko 1995) It is increasingly difficult to keep up with both the literature in a field and ....

.... Being a scholar has become increasingly complex over the last 50 years (Bush 1945; Odlyzko 1995) The number of scholarly publications, both articles and journal offerings, is increasing at an exponential rate and this rate of increase is being driven by growth in the overall number of researchers (Odlyzko 1995). It is increasingly difficult to keep up with both the literature in a field and with who s who among other practitioners. This contributes to fragmentation, of both the sense of community and the research results, making it difficult for new research to build on existing work. According to ....

Odlyzko, A. M. (1995). "Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies ,42: 71-122.

....with all fields of computer science. All other journals only cope with a part of the wide variety of themes of modern computer science. For printed journals it would be impossible to cover such a wide range of themes, because they would turn into paper monsters that are impossible to use [see Odlyzko 94] But with sophisticated methods for locating papers information retrieval is no longer a problem, even if a journal is as comprehensive as J.UCS. But why don t electronic journals cover wider thematic areas than they do now, and why is J.UCS able to handle the wide variety of themes of ....

Odlyzko, A., M.: "Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals"; Submitted to Notices AMS (1994).

....Exchange Rapidity and breadth of communication have always been significant requirements in the exchange of STI. Scientific journals evolved in the 17th century to replace the system of exchanging personal letters between scientists, which evolved because of unacceptable delays in publishing books [31]. However, journals are no longer used for rapid communication, but rather as a medium for priority claiming, quality control and archiving scientific work. 3] To achieve rapid communication of STI, different disciplines have adopted various models. In computer science, the technical report is ....

....well established. Paul Ginsparg, a physicist active in digital libraries, notes that The small amount of filtering provided by refereed journals plays no effective role in our research. 11] While noting that not all disciplines embrace the pre print technical report culture equally, Odlyzko [31] states it is rare for experts in any mathematical subject to learn of a major new development in their area through a journal publication and also relates comments by computer scientists Rob Pike ( that in his area journals have become irrelevant ) and Joan Feigenbaum ( if it didn t happen at a ....

A. M. Odlyzko, `Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals', International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 42, 71-122, 1995.

....modules, and electronic journals have been existing in Internet for a long time. So what is new about J. UCS, why is it such a great idea As a matter of fact a careful look at electronic journals and a more radical point of view than ours on the speed of replacement of printed journals is taken in [Odlyzko 94] Thus, the idea is neither great nor new. Literally thousands of researchers have had it before, and some have already acted, by issuing regular journals, newsletters or even whole user written encyclopedias via Internet. However, all attempts to date that we are aware of are restricted to a ....

Odlyzko,A.:"Tragic Loss or Good Riddance?The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journal"; short version to appear in Notices of the AMS, full version: J.UCS 0,0 (1994)

....research community moves more and more toward electronic publication, these new digital publications should not only provide the features normally available in printed publications, but also look for new extensions made possible by their digital format. Unlike publications like electronic journals [Odlyzko 1996] , which have a primarily textual component, electronic proceedings present the opportunity for a significant multimedia component, based in part on the presentations that form a key part of conferences. In the DAGS interactive proceedings [Gloor, Makedon, Matthews 1993] Makedon, Metaxas, ....

Odlyzko, A. M.: "Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals"; Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier; The MIT Press, Boston, MA (1996).

....[Calude, Maurer and Salomaa (1994) Maurer and Schmaranz 1994] have many significant advantages over traditional journals. One of the most comprehensive reports to date is published in J. UCS, under the title Tragic Loss or Good Riddance The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals [Odlyzko 1994]. Most publishing houses see some form of electronic publishing as inevitable. Compelling arguments can be advanced in support of information systems that: Support fast text searches (as described in Section 4.3) Support graphics, hyperlinks and annotations . Save time, money, and library ....

Odlyzko A. M.: "Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals"; J.UCS (Journal for Universal Computer Science), 0, 0 (1994).

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Andrew. M. Odlyzko, "Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 42

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