Faculty perceptions of electronic journals as scholarly communication: A question of prestige and legitimacy

Speier, Cheri; Palmer, Jonathan W.; Wren, Daniel A.; Hahn, Susan

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:6<537::aid-asi9>3.3.co;2-y

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“…It is likely that often this is connected to a tendency to resist change. For example, Stone (2017b) notes that the attitudes of many authors to open access mirror the attitudes of authors to e-resources in the 1990s (Budd & Connaway, 1997;Speier, Palmer, Wren, & Hahn, 1999), which identified that faculty held a "prevalent belief that electronic journals were lower quality than print journals" (McClanahan, Wu, Tenopir, & King, 2010, p. 210). In the UK, similar assumptions about quality, seemingly rooted in the same resistance to change, were also expressed with specific reference to open access monographs in the evidence submitted to the Consultation on open access in the post-2014Research Excellence Framework (HEFCE, 2013.…”

Section: Third Challenge: Qualitymentioning

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Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing

Deville

Sondervan

Stone

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The authors, who all have experience with academic publishing, outline the landscape of new university and academic-led open access publishing, before discussing four interrelated sets of challenges which are often referred when questioning the viability of such publishing ventures. They are: (1) professionalism, (2) scale, (3) quality, and (4) discoverability & dissemination. The authors provide examples of how, albeit differing in size, form and ambition, these new presses are not just adhering to conventional publishing norms but often innovating in order to surpass them.

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Section: Third Challenge: Qualitymentioning

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Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing

Deville

Sondervan

Stone

et al. 2019

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“…The reputation of scholarly e-journals has grown, as well, becoming increasingly credible, reputable and prestigious, and reaching a level almost comparable to that of print journals (Deshpande & Pathak, 2008). Speier, Palmer, Wren and Hahn (1999) describe the advent of the electronic journal as "the grandest revolution in the capture and dissemination of emerging academic knowledge" (p. 537). This statement is reflected in the work of Zhao and Strotmann (2007), who posit the emerging existence of a "two-tier scholarly communication system" (p. 1285), noting that in some fields, the information disseminated by print journals actually lags several years behind that contained in e-journals.…”

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Gender and citation in two LIS e-journals : a bibliometric analysis of LIBRES and information research

Reece-Evans¹

2010

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Though women outnumber men at a ratio of approximately 4:1 in the library and information science (LIS) field as a whole and 3:1 in academic librarianship, past studies suggest that maleauthored LIS print journal articles outnumber female-authored articles both in number and in citations received. The amount of citations received can serve as an indication of status within the LIS profession and can affect chances for professional advancement. This study uses citation analysis to measure patterns of gender, authorship and citation within the LIS e-journals LIBRES and Information Research, and compares these results to Håkanson's ( 2005) citation analysis of gender and citation patterns in three core LIS print journals.Results of this study suggest gendered affinity in citation and reference behavior. Findings include that from 1995-2007 more men than women published articles in LIBRES and Information Research; that both men and women referenced more male-authored articles; that men referenced male-authored articles at a greater rate than women referenced female-authored articles; that articles by women received more citations overall; and that men cited articles by men at a greater rate than they cited articles by women.Though female authorship was proportionately higher in the two LIS e-journals than in the three core LIS print journals, the imbalance in citation and reference patterns suggests that gender influences both male and female authors' choice of references, as well as the amount of citations that authors receive.

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“…During the intervening years, scholarly journals have also become a marker of quality used in the promotion and tenure process at many universities. 2 Within a static academic system, some journals have developed a higher level of credibility and prestige than others.…”

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A Tipping Point for Electronic Journals? A Comparison of Highly Cited Journals in Six Disciplines

Foote

2011

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator

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A census of prestige journals (those included in the ISI's Journal Citation Reports) in six fields (business, communication, geology, meteorology, physiology, and social psychology) showed that 97% of journals in those fields in 2008 were in transition between print and electronic. Two percent were distributed only in print; one percent was distributed in electronic format only. Electronic-only journals had a higher reputational value than print-only journals. The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, a native electronic-only journal, had the fourth-highest reputational value among communication journals and had the highest reputational value among all electronic-only journals examined. Strong emerging trends in the sciences for eliminating print copies of journals are noted.

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Faculty perceptions of electronic journals as scholarly communication: A question of prestige and legitimacy

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing

Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing

Gender and citation in two LIS e-journals : a bibliometric analysis of LIBRES and information research

A Tipping Point for Electronic Journals? A Comparison of Highly Cited Journals in Six Disciplines

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