ELECTRONIC JOURNAL

• Define as the journal that may take two different forms:
• Journal that published in print form or digital form
• Electronic –only journal, which is produced, published and distributed via electronic medium.

  Advantages

• Instant access
• Issues can be unbundled.
• Issues are directly loadable into an electronic database.
• Proofreading can be done by authors
• Electronic storage is more efficient than that for print volumes.
• Paperless, but it has to be recognized that readers may want a printout of the articles they are interested in.

Disadvantages

• Hardware and software are required
• Training
• Peer review is less common
• Graphics are problematic
• Copyright is undecided.
• Archives(records) are hard to maintain

Types of Electronic Journal

Types of electronic journal may be classified in various way such as:

• By location
• By products
• By Availability of print products
• By Types of Technology Applied
• By Price
• By Peer Review

Characteristics

• Limited Cost
• Global Distribution
• Very Satisfactory Quality of Reproduction of Image
• Electronic subscription and sending in of articles
• Personalized Subscription
• Possibility of reliable analysis of readership
• Use of hypertext
• Digital Storage
• Good Communication between the author and reader
• Commercial Independence