VINE: Volume 28 Issue 2

The twelve ages of electronic journals

Anne Dixon

An 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. Wilson

Describes 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 Dawson

SuperJournal 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. Ferdig

This 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 Peters

This 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 Zhang

Most 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 Massiter

Investigates 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 Houghton

This 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’…