Eric,
I found your posting about web links very interesting.
My observation (based on conversations with my colleagues and questioning
the students in my Cornell classes) is that most of them use general Web
search engines (notably Google) as their first choice way of looking for
information. I
on Mon, 2 Oct 2000 Steve Hitchcock wrote:
> The problem for many online-only journals is that they are electronic
> *format* but print journal in concept, i.e. they only differ only in
> delivery mechanism, which isn't sufficiently distinctive.
>
> For different reasons, both the hybrid model an
Donald King :
There are basically 2 ways we (King Research) and others have estimated
readership of articles:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084
The first method involves providing survey respondents with a list of
recently published article titles and asking them which articles th
At 12:02 29/09/00 +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote:
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:37:36 +0100 (BST)
From: Stevan Harnad
> Do you believe that electronic journals are more effective than print to
> disseminate research? If so, why?
Yes, much moreso, because:
(
Henderson begins his reply by describing "documented," "appropriate,"
"logical," and "understandable" as "objective" notions. At the risk of
seeming postmodern, I will have to argue that *not one of them* can be
"objective" either in the sense that they mean the same thing to every
observer or tha
>Libraries are apparently reluctant to drop journals to which they
have long
>subscribed. Therefore scientific societies can give away IFWA and
not risk
>sharp declines in library subscriptions.
It strikes me as being slightly irrational for a library to pay for
wh
