An electronic magazine (also E-journal) is a magazine, those as net publication (more rarely also on a data medium, then disk-likes mentioned) is published. Electronic magazines play particularly with the scientific magazines an increasing role.

As substantial characteristic it is considered to an electronic magazine that their articles are contained in the full text. A magazine, which possesses homepage, on which only to the expenditure for print one refers, is therefore still no electronic magazine. As is the case for conventional magazines belong to an electronic magazine also an editorship, a publisher (usually a publishing house) and authors.

History

As the first electronic version of a magazine the Harvard appeared Business Review in an electronic parallel output for the service Bibliographic information services starting from 1982.

Forms

Since most readers prefer also today still printed articles, it concerns with the majority of electronic magazines on-line versions of a printed expenditure. Pure on-line magazines are clearly rarer, in the range of the scientific magazines constitute them about 10-15%. Due to been void the costs of distribution and pressure electronic magazines can be made free of charge accessible, if the persons from other sources, taken part for their production, are paid or voluntarily to work.

Contrary to printed magazines commercial electronic magazines cannot usually bought, but a right to use can be acquired only over a license agreement. Due to the rising magazine prices many libraries unite to consortia, which negotiate with the publishing houses. Well-known scientific magazine publishing houses are among other things the Springer publishing house and Elsevier.

New publication models

Due to the new possibilities of on-line medium and the price strategy of the publishing houses (the so-called magazine crisis) in the past years new publication forms developed. Among other things a release of all published articles is demanded after a certain period up to a complete abolishment of the publishing houses as a mediator between author and reader. The open ACCESS movement (see for instance Budapest open ACCESS initiative, citizen of Berlin explanation) demands that the magazine literature should be accessible by means of self archiving and establishment of new free E-journals. Self archiving is called: On Eprint servers scientist presents their articles ("“Preprint"”) or after ("“post office print"”) a magazine publication on-line for the order. Different business models test answers to the open question, how the administrative costs of the production of a magazine are to be distributed.

See also

• Open Archives initiative, open ACCESS, electronic publications, technical periodical
• : Category: On-line magazine

Related links

• The electronic magazine library is is a cooperative service of more than 330 libraries with the goal of offering to its users a simple and comfortable entrance appearing too electronic scientific magazines.
• In the magazine data base also electronic magazines are specified beside printed magazines.
• In the directory OF open ACCESS journal are specified electronic magazines, which are freely accessible (see also open ACCESS).
• Extensive information to electronic magazines offers the library service center Baden-Wuerttemberg (BSZ)
• Cellar, Alice: Electronic magazines: Developments in the different branches of science. In: , does No. 2 time-look 2 (2003), where the way Historical technical periodicals in the electronic age (publisher of this expenditure: Gudrun Gersmann and Matthias Schnettger) http://www.zeitenblicke.historicum.net/2003/02/keller.htm
• A collection of on-line literature (among other things from electronic magazines) to electronic publishing, on-line magazines and open ACCESS is here: http://wiki.pruefung.net/Wiki/OpenAccess
• A link list to publications and lectures about electronic magazines and consortia offers the library service center Baden-Wuerttemberg (BSZ)

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