quiz: 06.21

Name

From yesterday's student micro-presentations about ejournals:

 

1. JSTOR is the aggregator that includes the ejournals presented by Holly, Sarah, Denise, and Yunshan. Name one of the features that sets JSTOR apart from most other ejournal aggregators. Which ejournal challenge (pricing, access, preservation, data formats, timing of publication) is JSTOR attemting to address with this feature? (4 points)

From

Designing Electronic Journals With 30 Years of Lessons from Print, Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King, Journal of Electronic Publishing, 1998.12.

 

2. True or false: Scientific journals have become more important to scientists in recent years, as evidenced by the fact that scientists are both reading and writing more articles than in previous years. (2 points)

3. Name one way in which ejournal publishers, libraries, or ejournal readers can apply "30 years of lessons from print." (4 points)