Citations for Serial Literature v1n23 (May 10, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v1n23 Date: Sun, 10 May 1992 21:43:03 EDT Reply-To: Citations for Serial Literature Sender: Citations for Serial Literature From: mgeller@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: CSL volume 1, number 23 CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 1, number 23 May 10, 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------I n this issue: Serials Review, Volume 18, numbers 1/2, Spring/Summer 1992 ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ SERIALS REVIEW 18:1-2, 1992 Special Issue on "Economic Models for Networked Information" Czeslaw Jan Grycz, Special issue editor "...networked information will flow between its creators and users in at least as many ways as printed information currently flows....it...must flow, in more ways than printed information currently flows if scholarship is to be enriched and intellectual productivity is to be enhanced to the degree promised by the technological capabilities of the networked medium." Such is a policy statement issued by the Coalition for Networked Information, a multidisciplinary body of stakeholders in the expanding national and international digital networks. The fabric that holds scholarly communication together is made up of different interwoven strands, but few are as important as the economic ones which reward authors for their research efforts, publishers for their value-added services, and librarians for their service to the community of scholars whom they serve. We've become so used to the existence and efficacy of the economic systems supporting print-based communications that many of us take them for granted. Recently, pricing adjustments have collided with budget constraints; information "providers" have begun to realize the economic value of reliable information content; new high tech publishing players have entered the arena of scholarly communication; institutions are rethinking the value of their intellectual assets and properties; various court decisions are restructuring our legal protections and enhancements for intellectual properties; network connectivity has provided a new medium for dissemination. Each of these events has heightened our awareness of the precarious balance of economic rights within the system of scholarly communication. In March of 1991, an ad hoc group of some 40 interested representatives of a wide and diverse population of publishers, scholars, editors, librarians, administrators, and computer center directors met in Monterey, California, to focus on these issues. By the end of the meeting several potential models for electronic publishing and networked information were outlined to form the basis of further deliberations and commentary. In this special double issue of SR, several expert commentators, many of whom were present at that meeting, share their thoughts on these models and on the economics of scholarly communication as it migrates from print-based publishing to electronic publishing. Special issue editor Czeslaw Jan Grycz outlines these models in his introductory essay. Page 11 Making the Market for Networked Information: An Introduction to a Proposed Program for Licensing Electronic Uses Paul Evan Peters Experimentation is stifled if there is no way to preserve the current stake-holder investment. An orderly migration from one phase to another will have to take into account transitional costs. Experimentation must be made viable because it will provide much needed information about user attitudes, preferred implementations, and required support services. Peters, who is director of the Coalition for Networked Information, presents a proposal for licensing printed and electronic materials so they can be made available over the networks in a controlled research environment. Page 19 Electronic Publishing: An Economic View Malcolm Getz In a particularly lucid and clearly written essay, Getz provides the basis for comprehending the various issues and factors that enter into a determination of "value" and utility of published materials (print or electronic) for scholars. Page 25 An Economic Analysis of Scientific Journal Prices: Preliminary Results Roger Noll and W. Edward Steinmueller Although there have been lively disagreements about pricing policies of publishers, the discussions have been hampered by a lack of rigorous statistical information and analysis. Economists Noll and Steinmueller have been conducting a study under a grant from the Council of Library Resources. They share their preliminary results in this essay. Page 32 Pricing Electronic Information Michael Lesk From the perspective of a scientist working in a large research laboratory, Lesk considers the efficacy of site licensing as suitable for electronic network dissemination of information. Page 38 Academic Information Management at the Crossroads: Time Again to Review the Economics Richard N. Katz Although information - collecting it, accessing it, using it, and publishing it - is at the heart of university life, Katz suggests we lack a baseline understanding of institutional costs associated with managing scholarly communications, the absence of which may hinder our ability to project useful models for our digital future. Page 41 A World Physics Information System: An Online, Highly Interactive, Discipline-Oriented Facility T.D. Schultz Co-author of the influential Report of the Task Force on Electronic Information Systems of the American Physical Society, Schultz explores the vision of an inclusive distributed-information model and describes the advantages of such a model to the scientist researcher, suggesting highly complex environments in which economic support structures will have to exist in order to make possible such a global information system as the Task Force envisions. Page 45 Electronic Version of Printed Journals H.H. Barschall Barschall investigates the application of Compact Disk storage technology to the dissemination of scholarly journals and also the likely impact of such media on the pricing structure for traditional publishers. Page 49 Discipline-Specific Literature Bases: A View of the APS Model Vicky Reich Each of our current stakeholders contributes uniquely to the functionality of our present scholarly communication system. One of the most important values in analyzing how we might move into an unpredictable future is to examine proposals made by one community from the perspective of those in another. In this essay, Reich provides such a contribution when she analyzes the proposal of the APS Task Force from the perspective of a university research librarian. Page 52 Convergent Electronic Cultures Steve Cisler His skillful and deft essay is particularly enjoyable because librarian Cisler, who is a senior scientist at Apple Computer, has already made himself a much-appreciated and widely-admired commentator on the digital networks. It has become his milieu of choice within which to create and enhance communities of peers and colleagues. His observations have a less theoretical and more inviting tone. Page 55 Interactive Publication: Extending the American Physical Society's Discipline-Specific Model for Electronic Publishing Stevan Harnad One of the leading spokespersons for the likely transformation of scholarly communication, Harnad's thoughtful essay makes us consider whether our perceptions of the future are too colored by dependence of present familiarities. Page 58 Making Copyright Work in Electronic Publishing Models Mary Brandt Jensen Just as there are multiple economic models for print-based publications, there exist a variety of precedent-setting models for electronic properties in other segments of the communications industry. Taking a lawyer's point of view, Jensen examines some of these intellectual property protections to see how they might apply to texts and digital library collections. Page 62 Technology Giveth... Robert Kost Two poles of the discussion on economic models involve what might be called the "justice" model and the "sharing" model. Attorney Kost claims that technology can provide mechanisms to implement either model, and challenges us to realize that the fundamental decision of which to implement is entirely ours to make. Page 67 The National Site License Model Karen Hunter It is easy to claim that one economic model or another is attractive. The effort to consider the ramifications at a more detailed level takes considerably more energy. In her perceptive essay, Hunter makes such an effort in thinking about the implications of site licensing from the perspective of a publisher. Page 71 Distributing the Costs of Scholarly Journals: Should Readers Contribute? Myer Kutz In 1969, the National Enquiry into Scholarly Communication proposed a national periodicals center. Kutz remembers that far-sighted and much-maligned report and thinks about it from the perspective of modern advances and capabilities. Page 73 Buying Articles in the Future Miriam A. Drake An alternative model for disseminating networked information is the Acquisition-on-Demand model. We asked Drake to consider the implications of such a model; her essay provides useful insights into the likely trade-offs of such a scheme. Page 75 The Coalition for Networked Information's Acquisition-on-Demand Model: An Exploration and Critique Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Like Drake, Bailey looks at the Acquisition-on-Demand model, but from a different perspective. In so doing, he defines useful characteristics of information for us to consider quite apart from the economic and functional implementations. Page 78 net.journalism Kenneth I. Laws In a philosophically concrete think piece, Laws cautions us against overemphasizing economics as the prime force in regulating what may or may not be available on the networks. He points out that economic forces are sufficiently strong that they may not need reinforcement. More attention, therefore, should be given to protecting and supporting the free exchange of a variety of information resources. Page 82 National Information Infrastructure Components Robert Kahn Others have written about the likely impact of networked information as agents that will transform the work of scholars and network users, but few have been so involved with transformations as has Kahn. Kahn is also vitally aware of issues of scalability. In his essay, he provides a useful outline for the issues to be confronted as the network scales up in numbers of available resources and magnitudes of simultaneous users. He suggests the importance of intelligent technological techniques in mastering the expanding availability of resources. Page 85 Knowledge-based Systems and Copyright Patrice A. Lyons Following upon Bob Kahn's vision of future issues, Lyons, who is an attorney, considers the intellectual property considerations of collaborative and multimedia environments, positing an approach that might permit the present copyright law to extend its protections and stimulation into the digital network environment. Page 88 The Missing Model: A "Circle of Gifts" Ann Okerson Pursuing the likelihood of entirely new collaborations and interactions on a freely-accessed network, Okerson examines the implications of decisions that might enhance or hinder experimentation; might or might not create disenfranchised communities; and could encourage or stifle diversity. Her commentary highlights the vitality that is part of the presently unruly environment of the network. Page 92 Can the Network Reduce the Cost of Scholarly Information? Peter Lyman The title of his essay is the question with which most academics and scholars are most vitally concerned. Lyman helps clarify the cost/price debate by considering the ways in which commercial commodity models interact with institutional and discipline models of enhanced capacity through collaborative sharing. Page 98 National Corporation for Scholarly Publishing: Presentation and Description of the Model Peter R. Young Of course, fundamentally, the unfolding of a system of digital scholarly communication will depend greatly on public and institutional policy. Young reminds us of the importance of policy decisions with respect to the likely emergence of support for new scholarly communications developments, and forwards for discussion an entirely new structure, based on that of the Public Broadcasting Corporation. Page 100 Electronic Editions of Serials: The Virtual Library Model Brett Butler Butler's MemRI project has given him a basis for real experiments in a variety of venues and milieus. His analysis of E-Library collections and their specific contributions to different entities and patron communities helps to distinguish the functional differences that will ultimately determine the economic risks which might be capitalized. Page 102 Reaction, Response, and Realization: From the Crisis in Scholarly Communication to the Age of Networked Information Clifford A. Lynch One of the pro-active leaders in the area of networked resources, architectures, and standards, Lynch provides a final summing-up that is at once a criticism, an encouragement, and a call for action based upon a realistic assessment of the critical nature of such deliberations and exchanges as those collected in this special issue. Page 107 Report of the Electronic Journals Task Force MIT Libraries Marlene Manoff (chair), Eileen Dorschner, Marilyn Geller, Keith Morgan, and Carter Snowden The excitement generated by the pioneer electronic journals, the possibilities for transforming scholarly communication, and the fact that the literature on the subject often reads like science fiction have all succeeded in shaking the five skeptical members of the task force into a state of almost inspired attention. In this report, they attempt to suggest the flavor of some of this visionary ardor, while grounding their discussion in the more mundane reality of the not yet fully evolved world of electronic journal publishing. Page 113 Electronic Journal Forum: Column 1 Linda Langschied, with a sidebar by Sandra Kerka In this special issue, SR debuts a new column. "Electronic Journal Forum" was created to provide a forum for discussion of that new medium for scholarly publication known as the electronic journal. This first column spotlights the founder and the present editor of New Horizons in Adult Education, which is often cited as the first peer-reviewed electronic journal to be successfully "published" on the network. A sidebar discusses the journal's indexing in the Resources in Education portion of ERIC. Page 131 Conference Reports Barbara von Wahlde, Cindy Hepfer, and Joseph W. Barker von Wahlde reports on the first annual Faxon Institute, Reston, Virginia, 28-30 April 1991. Hepfer reports on the 6th Annual NASIG Conference, Trinity University, 14-17 June 1991. Barker reports on the ALCTS ALMS Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group, ALA Midwinter Conference in San Antonio, January 1992. 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