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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Electronic journals as innovations: A study of author and editor early adopters Abstract: Electronic publishing holds the potential to alter scientific communication radically, although this transition is only in its earliest stages. Because of this, the current moment presents an opportunity to study the process of transformation as it unfolds from the viewpoints of early participants. This study investigated three research questions about how authors, editors, and readers of two electronic journals serving the ecology community viewed the development of electronic journals; how authors arrived at the decision to become involved in electronic publishing; and how social structures influenced the decision process. A qualitative approach was used to address these questions and to develop emergent themes. Three conceptual foundations grounded the project: Rogers' paradigm of diffusion of innovations, existing models of scientific communication, and the sociology of science. Data were gathered from interviews and supporting documents. The two journals, while both relatively new and serving the same discipline, adopted somewhat different approaches to electronic publishing: one employed an electronic-only format and the second offered simultaneous print and electronic publication. These are currently the two main approaches to developing electronic journals. |
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