Reviewed:
5th September 1996
By:
Amy Tucker
A site that I could not have been without during my first tentative steps into the world of electronic publishing is Hyperjournal forum. The site was set up in April 1995 and is concerned first and foremost with electronic journals published on the world wide web and in particular with those published by the academics themselves. It was the brain child of Dr Damien Keown of Goldsmiths College, who started the ball rolling through the set up of the Hyperjournal Mail list. The list has been subject to a deluge of electronic publishing debates, one of which became known as the Harnard v Fuller debate published in the Times Higher Educational Supplement in May/June 1995.
As well as providing an archive for the mail list , the Forum provides easy access to a wide range of electronic journals, electronic publishing projects (yes FIGIT eLib is there on the contents pages!), and links to related resources and literature.
Two invaluable resources supported by the site are the refereed electronic journals published in Europe list and an online version of the 5th Edition ARL Directory of Electronic Publications. The directory compiled by Anne Okerson and Bob Parks includes a full listing of hotlinked e-journals ranging from "Practical Anarchy News" to Stevan Harnard’s Psycoloquy. Although extremely useful and interesting, this document could benefit from some kind of searching or internal checklist to provide easier access to the titles at the end of the alphabet rather than scrolling through the entire listing.
HyperJournal Web site,
For those of you who find yourself flummoxed (as I often do) by "e-publishing formats speak" which as far as I can make out involves use of plenty of acronyms then you might benefit from following the Publishing Format link. This page provides links to various manual/sites that deal with production issues as well as a link to some sample electronic publishing formats.
My one whinge would be that the site itself could benefit from a regular update particularly in the contents pages which has had the same jumble of "favourite links" on it since the beginning of the year. Despite this it remains a useful pool of resources for those wanting to find out more about electronic journals in the academic world.
Material on this page is copyright Ariadne/original authors. This article last updated/links checked on 11-Jul-1997