By Wayne Jones

The proliferation of e-journals and their impression on library collections is large. E-Journals entry and administration takes a finished examine how e-journals have replaced the library panorama and provides librarians suggestions to raised deal with them. this beneficial source presents a wide assessment of the sensible and theoretical concerns linked to the administration of digital journals, and includes sensible and illuminating case stories of difficulties confronted and recommendations present in person libraries. Containing chapters by means of revered professionals in this dynamic subject of dialogue, E-Journals entry and administration offers important details on an entire diversity of concerns facing digital source entry and administration, together with bibliographic and net entry, acquisitions, and licensing.

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Once these issues are worked out, it is likely e-books will flourish. Retrospective digitization of monographs and other analog material is also moving ahead at full speed. In the last two years, numerous large-scale digitization initiatives have been launched. These initiatives foster a vision of the Web as a kind of universal library containing much of the world’s published monographs, music, films, photographs, and other cultural material in digital form. The Google project has probably garnered the most attention.

If the reviewer accepts, he or she will then read the submission and provide comments either by annotating the submission itself or by entering them directly into OJS. Either way, the reviewer can opt to restrict his or her comments for consideration by the section editor or enable the author to view the comments directly. The reviewer will also submit a recommendation as to whether the submission should be accepted for publication, rejected, or returned to the author for revisions. Correspondence between author, section editor, and reviewers is maintained in OJS for future reference.

BioMed Central now hosts about 100 journals, and its economic model “treats publication as the last phase of the research process. ”18 The Public Library of Science was born in 2001 with the mission to provide public access to the world’s scientific and medical literature. More recently, commercial publishers have begun offering open access along with their paid subscriptions. Notable examples are Springer and Oxford University Press. Over the last few years there have been a number of landmark declarations in support of open access, generally confirming that open access to scholarly research is beneficial for society as a whole and calling for the publication of more journals and/or self-archiving of research papers: • The first and perhaps most important of these declarations came from the BOAI.

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