VINE: Volume 28 Issue 2
Table of contents
The twelve ages of electronic journals
Anne DixonAn overview of electronic journal history from the perspective of an early and active player.
Information Research: a case study in the free electronic publication of research
T.D. WilsonDescribes the development and current status of the electronic journal, Information Research, which began as a print‐based Departmental newsletter and which now publishes original…
Putting the Super into Journal: The SuperJournal Project at the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Heather DawsonSuperJournal is an electronic journal research project developed by a consortium of publishers and UK universities to investigate user expectations of electronic journals and the…
A socio‐technical perspective on web‐based manuscript management and publishing: a two‐year case study
Yong Zhao, Punyashloke Mishra, Valerie L. Worthington, Richard E. FerdigThis paper describes the design and implementation of Tiger, a web based manuscript management and publishing system. The system was designed to facilitate the fundamental process…
EPRESS: Changing the way electronic journals work
Stuart PetersThis article introduces EPRESS, a new project funded by the Electronic Libraries programme. EPRESS aims to change the way that electronic journals are administrated by offering…
Evaluating electronic journals services and monitoring their usage by means of WWW server log file analysis
Zhongdong ZhangMost electronic journals are now Web‐based. This paper introduces the method of WWW server log file analysis and its application to evaluating electronic journals services and in…
Managing your web pages: a guide to link checkers and other web management tools
Marie MassiterInvestigates some of the programs available for checking that links within web pages are still valid. Each individual program is discussed detailing features, cost and technical…
Understanding Librarians in an IT age
David James HoughtonThis article represents a personal view of the changing role of the librarian in today's ‘high tech’ age and attempts to identify the type of skills required for a ‘modern’…