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Publishing An e-Journal What’s Out There?

Pres 2. Publishing An e-Journal What’s Out There?.

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Publishing An e-Journal What’s Out There?

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  1. Pres 2 Publishing An e-Journal What’s Out There? UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.

  2. Electronic Publications • Electronic Magazines • Electronic Journals • Webzines • Electronic Newspapers

  3. Print Versus Electronic • IT and Library Service department bulletins • Library magazines • EU project magazines • Peer-reviewed journals http://www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/interact.htm http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/vision/2/

  4. J Why Put It On The Web? • Image and Publicity • Accessibility • To a wider audience • World-wide • Reduction of cost • Reduction of production time and effort • Functionality • Searchability • Links • … • Fewer limits on article size

  5. L The Negative Aspects • Hard work • You need trained staff to achieve a good magazine • Loss of some audience • Money • Archiving • Control of Information • Change of Culture

  6. Case Study - Cultivate Int. 1 • Cultivate Interactive - EU project magazine • Was released on July 3rd 2000 • Issue published every 3 months • To date 100+ articles plus news & events, jobs, games, editorial, competition • Followed design guidelines http://www.cultivate-int.org/

  7. Technology 2 • The technology used to provide Cultivate Interactive: • Windows NT 4 • MS Site Server 3.0 • IIS 4.0 • which provides: • Advanced search capabilities • Metadata management • using • Microsoft Active Server pages (ASP) • Server-Side Includes (SSI)

  8. Information Dissemination 3 • Email message to mailing lists • Press releases to a number of magazines / E-zines • Following up referrals for Exploit Interactive - a previous Web magazine • Submission to search engines • Poster sessions given at conferences • Additional presentations and workshops planned, article in LA Record

  9. Value-Added Features • User Feedback - Peer Review • Discussion lists • Interactive games • Statistics • Database linking • Personalisation • Externally-Hosted Web services • Automation of publishing functions http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue18/web-magazine/intro.html

  10. Example - Statistics • Hit parades • Externally hosted Web stats http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/statistics/ http://www.bmj.com/hitparade/

  11. Example - Feedback • Feedback forms • Polls http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rdf/?dwzone=xml http://www.bmj.com/misc/strawpolls.shtml

  12. Example Magazines • See the workshop home page for example magazines: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/stimulate-2001/>

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