E-papers: Blind Alley of the Publication Development? Who is Hampered? Who Profits?
| Session: Transition from
Classical to Electronic Media: Opportunities and Limitations |
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| Author: |
Milan Špála, Charles University in Prague, First Medical Faculty; Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: |
In a continuously growing rate beside classical printed journals parallely
appear their electronic editions and also absolutely new e-journals come into existence. The PubMed Central (NIH 1999)
is an example illustrating such contemporary situation in biomedical journals. The pros and cons of e-journals are
enumerated. Some of the disadvantages (lack of interest of international publishers and database producers, lower
citedness, lack of peer-review process, difficulties, when e-preprints are submitted to printed journal editorial
boards) are now successfully solved. It is possible that the Global Health Network (global health information server -
GHIS) represents a new way how to redesign the research communication and to remove technical and structural barriers of
connecting and collaborating. The goal is not the death of biomedical journals (R. E. LaPorte, BMJ, 1995). But it is the
time to move beyond the vinyl records of journal articles to the CDs of research communication in the electronic
superhighway and apply the latest internet technology of the web/hypertext language. The idea of „e-print“ or „netprint“
will gain soon in academic community as well in the domain of publishers and database producers the same worthy position
as up to now the classical papers in printed journals. The authors and scientific journal readers accepted this new
journal policy because netprints represent publication / communication in full, for free and fast.
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| About the author: |
Graduated at Charles Universtiy Medical Faculty in Prague, MD (1956), PhD
(1963); Associated Professor of Pathophysiology / Experimental medicine at Charles University First Medical Faculty
(1988); Dept. of Pathophysiology at Charles University First Medical Faculty (1956-1995); Visiting Professor and Head of
Dept. of Pathophysiology at Université d´Oran (Algeria) (1970-1974); Institute of Scientific Information – Head of Dept.
(1995-2001), Research Specialist (2001- ); Member of Charles University Editorial Board and First Medical Faculty
editorial Board (1965 - ), Editor in Chief of „Sborník lékařský“ – Multidisciplinary biomedical journals of the First
Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague (1991 - ).
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Other papers in this session:
- Digital Delivery of Teaching Materials (Robert Ingram-Smith,
ProQuest Information and Learning; United Kingdom)
- Kluwer Online - Accelerating the World of Research (Alan
Harris, Kluwer Academic Publishers; Netherlands)
- PEC = Portal of Electronic Periodicals (Marie Paráková,
Central Library, Charles University in Prague; Czech Republic
Co-authors: Petr Boldiš, postagraduate
student of Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University in Prague)
- One Step Ahead with ScienceDirect (Annemarie Koot, Elsevier
Science ; Netherlands)
- 14:50 - 15:15 Coffee Break ()
- Principles, Actors, Models, Workflows and Technologies in Electronic
Dissertations Systems (Eva Bratková, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University
Prague; Czech Republic)
- The Electronic Database of Academic Theses at FEA MU (Jiří
Poláček, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University Iin Brno; Czech Republic)
- Accessibility of Czech theses: starting points for future
solutions (Martin Svoboda, State Technical Library; Czech Republic
Co-authors: Jan Bayer, State
Technical Library)
- Academic Information Portals (Kerstin Zimmermann, ftw.
(Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna); Austria)
- CABI Publishing : serving global applied life science research
(Chris Ison, CABI Publishing; United Kingdoms)
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