Research Articles in Scholarly Electronic Communication

Locally Controlled Scholarly Publishing via the Internet: The Guild Model

Many librarians and scholars believe that the Internet can be used to dramatically improve scholarly communication via research articles. During the last decade there has been substantial discussion of four major publishing models where readers could access articles without a fee: electronic journals, hybrid paper-electronic journals, authors' self-posting on web sites, and disciplinary reposit...

BuHding web-based scholarly communication forums using electronic journals

,I Scholarly comrnunication is the root of scientific progress. Research on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the scholarly communication system is being carried out worldwide, particularJy with respect to electronic journals which can and should be constructed as communication forums. Refereeing new contributions for thest:; forums is a major means for their quality control an...

A genre Analysis of the Scholarly Electronic Mail: Implications for ‎Pedagogy

Scholarly mails apparently display stable conventional principles as an emerging genre. Thus, contributors should structure their electronic mails appropriately when writing for purposes of discussing professional topics. However, this requirement plunges many a scholar in dilemma as to how to go about this vital undertaking without written structural norms in electronic mail communication. Thi...

Checking the Role of Electronic Journals System in Improving Scientific Relationship among Faculty Members of Kurdistan University

Background and Aim: Science is the result of collective thinking and sharing of findings and the use and critique in collective spaces. Also, Researchers share scientific findings by using communication platforms. Therefore, platforms play an important role in development of science. With the creation of communication and information technologies, scholarly journals have placed considerable pos...

Electronic Publishing of Professional Articles: Attitudes of Academics and Implications for the Scholarly Communication Industry