Electronic scientific, technical, and medical journal publishing and its implications
[Electronic Resource]
:report of a symposium
/ Committee on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing
; Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, Policy and Global Affairs Division, the National Academies
Washington, DC
: National Academies Press,
, c2004.
xiii, 108 p. 23 cm.
"The Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications ... was held May 19-20, 2003, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C."--Pref. (p. viii).
"This report is based on excerpts from the symposium Proceedings that the committee found particularly useful to highlight ... The report does not cover all the issues that a more comprehensive study might consider, since it is limited only to the topics discussed during the symposium"--Pref. (p. viii-ix).
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Costs of publication -- Publication business models and revenue -- Legal issues in the production, dissemination, and use of the journal literature -- What is publishing in the future? -- What constitutes a publication in the digital environment? -- Symposium wrap-up.