The Issues with Journal Issues: Let Journals Be Digital Libraries

IF 4.6 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Publications Pub Date : 2023-02-09 DOI:10.3390/publications11010007

C. Sean Burns

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Science depends on a communication system, and today, that is largely provided by digital technologies such as the internet and web. Despite the fact that digital technologies provide the infrastructure for this communication system, peer-reviewed journals continue to mimic workflows and processes from the print era. This paper focuses on one artifact from the print era, the journal issue, and describes how this artifact has been detrimental to the communication of science, and therefore, to science itself. To replace the journal issue, this paper argues that scholarly publishing and journals could more fully embrace digital technologies by creating digital libraries to present and organize scholarly output.

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期刊问题:让期刊成为数字图书馆

科学依赖于通信系统，而今天，这主要是由互联网和网络等数字技术提供的。尽管数字技术为这种交流系统提供了基础设施，同行评议的期刊仍在模仿印刷时代的工作流程和流程。本文聚焦于印刷时代的一个人工制品，期刊问题，并描述了这个人工制品是如何对科学的传播有害的，因此，对科学本身有害。为了取代期刊发行，本文认为学术出版和期刊可以通过创建数字图书馆来呈现和组织学术产出，从而更充分地利用数字技术。

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来源期刊

Publications Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

CiteScore

6.50

自引率

1.90%

发文量

审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： The scope of Publications includes: Theory and practice of scholarly communication Digitisation and innovations in scholarly publishing technologies Metadata, infrastructure, and linking the scholarly record Publishing policies and editorial/peer-review workflows Financial models for scholarly publishing Copyright, licensing and legal issues in publishing Research integrity and publication ethics Issues and best practices in the publication of non-traditional research outputs (e.g., data, software/code, protocols, data management plans, grant proposals, etc.) Issues in the transition to open access and open science Inclusion and participation of traditionally excluded actors Language issues in publication processes and products Traditional and alternative models of peer review Traditional and alternative means of assessment and evaluation of research and its impact, including bibliometrics and scientometrics The place of research libraries, scholarly societies, funders and others in scholarly communication.