Electronic Expectations: Science Journals on the Web (Routledge Library Editions: Library and Information Science) - Softcover

 
9780367422400: Electronic Expectations: Science Journals on the Web (Routledge Library Editions: Library and Information Science)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367422409 ISBN 13: 9780367422400
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This book, first published in 1999, analyses the convergence of financial, technical, and public policy considerations that turned what seemed like science fiction twenty years ago into a library fact of life today. It shows that while electronic publication greatly speeds issuance of important scientific results of enduring value, it also has the potential to lower the economic threshold at which crank papers and marginal publications can gain a wide, if sadly misled audience, in the short run. It demonstrates that while scientists invented the web, they no longer control it, and that even the very largest research organizations, libraries, publishers, and journal aggregators, will, to a substantial degree, be at the technological and economic mercy of commercial users of the web.

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Tony Stankus

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367422409
ISBN 13 
9780367422400
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
212
Editor
Stankus Tony

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