Saturday, December 04, 2004
Antipodean online scholarly publishing ::
Two boosts for web-based scholarly publishing in biblical studies this week, both from across the ditch.
Australian Biblical Review is an established Journal, whose website has a new clean but sophisticated look, and new functionality. Book reviews are online, while articles are listed, and back issues indexed. Despite a number of distinguished names on the author list, and a good peer review policy, ABR has never seemed quite able to move from the local to the international stage.
The Bible and Critical Theory is a new kid on the block with big dreams, so is an e-journal. Yet the site is institutional and the web design has a quaintly mid 90s feel. However, from the start everything is available online as html or as pdf. There is an email Table of contents alerting service, though neither journal has an RSS feed.
In view of my musings on Google Scholar as paradigm shift I can't help noticing that neither journal is listed with Google Scholar yet and wondering if the pay-per-article full-text-online approach of the new journal will get it's articles cited more, and so raise its profile faster... ¶ 7:27 AM
[to Del.icio.us]
Two boosts for web-based scholarly publishing in biblical studies this week, both from across the ditch.
Australian Biblical Review is an established Journal, whose website has a new clean but sophisticated look, and new functionality. Book reviews are online, while articles are listed, and back issues indexed. Despite a number of distinguished names on the author list, and a good peer review policy, ABR has never seemed quite able to move from the local to the international stage.
The Bible and Critical Theory is a new kid on the block with big dreams, so is an e-journal. Yet the site is institutional and the web design has a quaintly mid 90s feel. However, from the start everything is available online as html or as pdf. There is an email Table of contents alerting service, though neither journal has an RSS feed.
In view of my musings on Google Scholar as paradigm shift I can't help noticing that neither journal is listed with Google Scholar yet and wondering if the pay-per-article full-text-online approach of the new journal will get it's articles cited more, and so raise its profile faster... ¶ 7:27 AM
[to Del.icio.us]
