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Bruce Thyer said
If SSWR contemplates developing an e-journal, I would encourage it to undertake a careful market analysis by surveying SSWR Members, Deans and Directors, etc. to ascertain how useful they would find a new e-journal, prior to investing any significant sums of SSWR money (e.g., member dues)to developing a new journal.
This is something most reputable commercial publishers to prior to developing a new journal.
Any new e-journal would not be likely to be picked up by the reputable citation indices and abstracting services, at least not right away, and this would make researchers a bit reluctant to send their best work to it.
Bruce Thyer
rickbarth said
Bruce: We have been looking at this issue and firmly believe that there is room for an e-journal that has higher quality reviews than most social work journals, publishes as articles are accepted and proofed (with a negligible “in press” period), and is widely accessible to readers across the world, following a brief (6-12 month) delay during which time only subscribers can access the papers. E-journals are getting picked up more quickly, now, because the shortened time to publication allows them to get cited more rapidly. If your paper is available to subscribers and members within a month, so so, after completion this allows it, then, to be cited more rapidly. That said, there will be a development period, no doubt. The SSWR Board will have to take all of that–and a wide range of sources of information about the market and best methods–into account before they make a final decision.
In the interim, we are hoping that we can keep the subscription costs down and the quality up and provide a service to SSWR and the field. I may only speak for myself, but I would like to see a day when SSWR members have a range of journal offerings as part of their membership benefits package.
gry planszowe said
Ciekawa strona, trafilem tu przypadkowo, ale od dzis bede wpadal czesciej, pozdro
Bruce Thyer said
Many existing journals have adopted a publish ahead of print feature, wherein once a typeset article has been proofed and corrected by an author, the publish goes ahead and publishes the article on the journal’s website, exactly as it will appear in print, in the order in which the articles are accepted. These publish ahead-of-print feature provides each article with its own DOI number, thus permitting ready citations to it. These web-based versions are easily accessible to folks whose institutional libraries subscribe to such journal. Thus the existing market has already moved in the direction envisioned for the new SSWR journal, by dramatically shortening the time lag involved from acceptance to print. This is a good thing. We certainly all wish for higher quality articles being publishing in our journals. Whether the new SSWR journal will be more successful at this than the existing ones is an open question.
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