The Open Journal Project

These pages last updated
3 March 1999

ABOUT
the project
PARTNERS
R&D centres and publishers
PERSONNEL
PAPERS
produced by the project
PRESENTATIONS
at conferences and seminars
JOURNAL RESOURCES
hosted by or accessible through the project

Papers

Final views from the project

• Linking Electronic Journals: Lessons from the Open Journal Project, D-Lib Magazine, December 1998 (the concluding paper on the project, by the whole of the project development team)
  and a related paper
• E-PRINT! Making the Most of Electronic Journals, The Computing Research Repository (CoRR)-part of the e-print archive at Los Alamos, December 1998

Linking PDF journals

• Dynamic Link Inclusion in Online PDF Journals (presented at EP'98, the seventh International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography, St Malo, France, April 1998)

Citation linking

• REVISED! Towards Universal Linking for Electronic Journals, Serials Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 1998) 21-33 (coauthored with the publisher Electronic Press Ltd, this is a revised version of Linking Everything to Everything: Journal Publishing Myth or Reality?, presented at the ICCC/IFIP conference on Electronic Publishing ‘97: New Models and Opportunities, Canterbury, UK, April 1997)
• Webs of Research: Putting the User in Control, coauthored with the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) (presented at the conference IRISS'98, Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists, Bristol, UK, March 1998)
• Citation Linking: Improving Access to Online Journals (presented at the Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, Philadelphia, USA, July 1997, pp. 115-122)

Online journals

• Web Journals Publishing: a UK Perspective, about e-journal publishing and how it has been transformed since 1996, tracing developments in the UK from two schemes funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils (first presented at the 20th annual conference of the UK Serials Group, Edinburgh, UK, April 1997, and published in the Group's journal Serials, November 1997)
• A Survey of STM Online Journals 1990-95: the Calm before the Storm, an analysis of the state of play of electronic journal publishing at the end of 1995 (also in the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists, edited by D. Mogge, sixth edition, Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1996, pp. 7-32)
  January 1996; last updated June 1998
  Citations of this survey by other online sources. Where is current interest in electronic journals heading? See this list for some pointers.

Open hypertext and the Web

• Link Services or Link Agents? (Presented at the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext, Pittsburgh, USA, June 1998)
• Implementing an Open Link Service for the World-Wide Web, World Wide Web, 1(2) (1998) 61-71
• Application-independent link processing (presented at the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference, Brisbane, Australia, April 1998)
• Open Information Services, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 28 (1996) 1027-1036 (first presented at the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, France, May 1996)
• The Distributed Link Service: A Tool for Authors, Publishers and Readers (presented at The Web Revolution: the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference, Boston, USA, December 1995)

Digital libraries

• Using the World Wide Web as an Electronic Library is an alternative, less technical, digital librarian's view of open information systems (presented at the third international ELVIRA (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) conference, Milton Keynes, UK, May 1996)

Web publishing

• Web Publishing: Speed Changes Everything is a short viewpoint paper by one member of the project team, which was published in the Internet Kiosk section of IEEE Computer (Vol. 29, No. 8, August 1996, 91-93)
  Since the launch of the IEEE's Digital Library, you need to be a subscriber to the service to access this article. We intend to make a version of the paper accessible here

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