From: "Gerry Mckiernan" <GMCKIERN_at_gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
_Virtual E-Journals_
I am greatly interested in identifying additional 'Virtual' electronic
journals.
A 'Virtual Journal' may be described as an electronic journal in a specific
subject discipline that is composed of relevant articles selected from
other electronic journals.
Two virtual journals of which I am aware are
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
[ http://www.vjbio.org/ ]
and
Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
[ http://www.vjnano.org/ ]
which were launched in January 2000 by the American Institute of Physics
(AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS).
Each of the virtual journals presents an online collection of relevant
papers from a broad range of "source" journals in the physical sciences.
As noted in a press release
[ http://www.aip.org/press_release/vj_release.html ]
These virtual journals are "online journals that ... collect relevant
papers from a broad range of physical science journals, including all
journals published by APS and AIP and selected journals from participating
publishers on AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS). From the
user's perspective, the virtual journals ... look and feel like "real"
journals, providing browsable Tables of Contents and freely available
abstracts, with links to full-text articles in the source
journals. Subscribers to the source journal will be able to seamlessly
access the full-text articles, while non-subscribers will
have the option to purchase articles for immediate online delivery."
"Virtual journals ... provide users with quick, convenient access to
information in cutting-edge fields," according to Martin
Blume, Editor-in-Chief at the American Physical Society. "Gathering into
one spot all the papers on a given topic that appear
in a wide range of premier physics-related journals ... help specialists
keep abreast of the latest developments, not only with
title 'alerts' but with abstracts and full-text articles."
Participating source journals include all journals published by APS and
AIP, journals from participating publishers on AIP's Online Journal Publishing
Service (OJPS), and as of August 2000 _Science_ magazine
[ http://ojps.aip.org/jhtml/vjs/partpub.html].
As Always, Any and All additional candidate ''Virtual Journals' would be
most welcome, including any that are currently under consideration or
development.
[I'd also be interested in the titles of current or former
'Anthologized' print journals that consist/consisted of articles
reprinted/republished from other print journals] [Any citations about this
publishing phenomenon - either in print or electronic - would be of great
interest!]
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_ Personalized E-Journals _
I am greatly interested in identifying electronic journals that allow a
user to create a personalized version of the journal or journals as defined
by user from pre-established categories, keywords, or automated interest
profiling based upon user behavior.
An example is the 'Virtual Review Journal' that can be created within
BioMedNet [http://www.bmn.com/ ] [ http://reviews.bmn.com/ ]. Within
BioMedNet, users can create a profile by selecting from broad categories
[http://reviews.bmn.com/virtual/create ], and/or tailor the personalized
journal using keywords, and name their personalized journal.
In selecting a named 'virtual journal' from 'My List of Virtual Journals'
, the user is presented with a listing of citations selected from "5000+
review articles from over 100 journals" that match the established profile
with the most recent listed first. A sample is found below:
.
1, The impact of preprint servers and electronic publishing on
biomedical research [Guest Editorial]
Gunther Eysenbach
Current Opinion in Immunology, 2000, 12:5:499-503
Abstract, Full text: text, PDF 67 k
2. The antibody web [Trends]
Stefan Dübel
Immunology Today, 2000, 21:8:355-357
Abstract, Full text: text, PDF 56 k
3. Multimedia atlas of internal parasites of horses
[CD-ROM Review]
Gareth W Hutchinson
International Journal for Parasitology, 2000, 30:5:675-676
Abstract, Full text: text, PDF 79 k
[My Virtual Journal focused on 'multimedia' ]
All users have access to the Abstract for a citation; access to the
full-text of the work is available only to subscribers. [BTW: A Free 90-day
trial to BioMedNet Reviews is currently available
[http://reviews.bmn.com/latest/reviews ]
[NOTE: BioMedNet is owned by Elsevier Science and is part of the Reed
Elsevier group of companies. BioMedNet is the website for biological
medical researchers. To date there are more than 600,000 members of
BioMedNet -- with more than 20,000 people joining per month! Membership to
BioMedNet is free, and members can search all of BioMedNet without charge.
However, viewing full-text articles from publishers often requires payment
or a subscription.]
As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, queries,
cosmic insights, etc. are Most Welcome!
I am particularly interested in the availability of
personalization/customization options with e-journal aggregators [e.g.,
OCLC ECO, Swets/Blackwell SwetsnetNavigator, etc.] which may or may not
offer such personalization options across the e-journals of a number of
publishers.
Citations to key and core articles, papers, reports, etc. on
customization/personalization of e-journals are of particular interest.
I am particularly interested in any and all examples of e-journals or
aggregators that can auatomatically create and refine a personalized
e-journal based upon user interaction with the e-collection.
The discussion of the BioMedNet service is for informational purposes
only and does not constitute an endorsement.
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_Reactive E-Journals_
In May 1999, I posted a query to various e-lists seeking the titles of
additional e-journals that provide an opportunity for readers to comment on
a published article an e-journal either as an annotation to segments of the
article or a separate component of the e-journal
[ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9905/0455.html].
I received several responses from this posting and learned about a
handful of such journals that offer this function and include
Conservation Ecology
[ http://www.consecol.org/Journal/ ]
[For an example see:
http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol2/iss2/resp1/index.html ]
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research'
[ http://www.jair.org/ ]
Journal of Interactive Media in Education
[ http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/]
[ For an example see; http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/00/stahl/stahl-01.html ]
[Click on ?! balloon]
Journal of Universal Computer Science
[ http://www.jucs.org/jucs/ ]
[For an examples, see http://www.jucs.org/jucs_annotations/all ]
MRS. Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research
[ http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/ ]
[ For an example see: http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/1/1/discuss/ ]
Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness
[ http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ ]
[For an example see:
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v3/psyche-3-06-vancampen.html ]
Psycoloquy
[ http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html ]
[For an example see:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.021 ]
[BTW: The BioMOO Scholarly MOO
[ http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/BioMOO/ ] offers a Journal Club in
which within this MOO participants can comment about a specific journal
article
e.g. [ http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/BioMOO/Meetings/940829-NSJC-4 ]
I am greatly interested in learning about other Reactive E-Journals as
well as any literature that have reviewed or commented [ :-)] or evaluated
this interactive functionality.
As Always, Any and Al contributions, suggestions, comments, queries,
critiques, criticisms, dimples, etc. are Most Welcome.
gerrymck_at_iastate.edu
Received on Thu Nov 30 2000 - 16:26:26 EST