{"product_id":"the-scientific-article-in-the-john-mackenzie-owen-9781402053351","title":"The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization","description":"1. The birth of the electronic journal In the autumn of 1987 Michael Ehringhaus and Bird Stasz of Syracuse U- versity launched New horizons in adult education, probably the very rst ref- 1 ereed scienti c journal to be published in electronic form ( g. 1. 1). The rst issue was sent over the Adult Education Network (AEDNET). The journal still 2 exists today. In March 1991 Ted Jennings of the University at Albany (State 3 University of New York) launched EJournal, described as an 'electronic jo- nal concerned with the implications of electronic networks and texts' ( g. 1. 2), coining the now popular term e-journal. The Online journal of current cli- cal trials, published from September 1991, has been described as the rst peer 45 reviewed electronic journal in medicine. How signi cant is the phenomenon of the scienti c electronic journaltoday, more than a decade and a half after its introduction? Over this period inf- mation and communication technologies (ICT) have been an important factor in the development of scienti c communication. Applications such as c- munication over digital networks (converging towards a single network - the Internet), the use of computerized systems for creating, storing and retrieving 1 The scienti c journal is also referred to as 'scholarly' or 'research' journal. We use the former term in this study. 2 Although no longer distributed over AEDNET but through the World Wide Web. The rst issue is now ? available at http: \/\/www. nova. edu\/ aed\/horizons\/vol1n1.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John MacKenzie Owen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1402053355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781402053351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.37w x 0.76d","brand":"John MacKenzie Owen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44123415904511,"sku":"9781402053351","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c7cc906-6bd2-4228-ad5b-46c359bca30e.jpg?v=1687430765","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-scientific-article-in-the-john-mackenzie-owen-9781402053351","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}