Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print - scientists and scholars tend to search electronically and follow hyperlinks rather than browse or peruse - electronically available journals may portend an ironic change for science. Using a database of 34 million articles, their citations (1945 to 2005), and online availability (1998 to 2005), I show that as more journal issues came online, the articles referenced tended to be more recent, fewer journals and articles were cited, and more of those citations were to fewer journals and articles. The forced browsing of print archives may have stretched scientist...
Many commentators have conjectured about the nature and promise of future scholarly electronic journ...
A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on the information behavior of academics at...
This essay examines how researchers gain access to knowledge at a time when scholarly communication ...
Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficien...
A recent article by James Evans in Science (Evans 2008) is being widely discussed in the science and...
A recent article by James Evans in Science (Evans 2008) is being widely discussed in the science and...
Studies conducted over the last three decades demonstrate that scientists read widely from scholarly...
Research from three decades shows that scientists read widely from scholarly journals, with the read...
From 1977 through 2001 the authors have conducted a series of studies that examine reading and publi...
The author\u27s work in collaboration with Donald King has encompassed many studies over a 25-year p...
Access to electronic journals and articles has involved three system phases: an early phase followin...
Recent research on search costs in electronic markets documents that the wide use of Internet has re...
Objective – To assess how the increase in number of electronic journals available to academic schola...
The recent surge in scientific electronic journals began when libraries began having access to the W...
Electronic journals are now the norm for accessing and reading scholarly articles. This article exam...
Many commentators have conjectured about the nature and promise of future scholarly electronic journ...
A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on the information behavior of academics at...
This essay examines how researchers gain access to knowledge at a time when scholarly communication ...
Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficien...
A recent article by James Evans in Science (Evans 2008) is being widely discussed in the science and...
A recent article by James Evans in Science (Evans 2008) is being widely discussed in the science and...
Studies conducted over the last three decades demonstrate that scientists read widely from scholarly...
Research from three decades shows that scientists read widely from scholarly journals, with the read...
From 1977 through 2001 the authors have conducted a series of studies that examine reading and publi...
The author\u27s work in collaboration with Donald King has encompassed many studies over a 25-year p...
Access to electronic journals and articles has involved three system phases: an early phase followin...
Recent research on search costs in electronic markets documents that the wide use of Internet has re...
Objective – To assess how the increase in number of electronic journals available to academic schola...
The recent surge in scientific electronic journals began when libraries began having access to the W...
Electronic journals are now the norm for accessing and reading scholarly articles. This article exam...
Many commentators have conjectured about the nature and promise of future scholarly electronic journ...
A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on the information behavior of academics at...
This essay examines how researchers gain access to knowledge at a time when scholarly communication ...