Publishing An e-Journal

What’s Out There?

UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.

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Electronic Publications

• Electronic Magazines• Electronic Journals• Webzines• Electronic Newspapers

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Print Versus Electronic

• IT and Library Service department bulletins• Library magazines• EU project magazines• Peer-reviewed journals

http://www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/interact.htmhttp://www.ltss.bris.ac.uk/interact.htm http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/vision/2/http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/vision/2/

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Why Put It On The Web?

• Image and Publicity • Accessibility

To a wider audience World-wide

• Reduction of cost • Reduction of production time and effort• Functionality

Searchability Links …

• Fewer limits on article size

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The Negative Aspects

• Hard work• You need trained staff to achieve a good

magazine• Loss of some audience• Money• Archiving• Control of Information

• Change of Culture

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Case Study - Cultivate Int.

Cultivate Interactive - EU project magazine• Was released on July 3rd 2000• Issue published every 3 months• To date 100+ articles plus news & events,

jobs, games, editorial, competition• Followed design

guidelines

http://www.cultivate-int.org/http://www.cultivate-int.org/

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Technology

The technology used to provide Cultivate Interactive:• Windows NT 4• MS Site Server 3.0• IIS 4.0

which provides:• Advanced search capabilities• Metadata management

using • Microsoft Active Server pages (ASP)• Server-Side Includes (SSI)

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Information Dissemination

• Email message to mailing lists• Press releases to a number of magazines /

E-zines• Following up referrals for Exploit Interactive

- a previous Web magazine• Submission to search engines• Poster sessions given at conferences• Additional presentations and workshops

planned, article in LA Record

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Value-Added Features

• User Feedback - Peer Review• Discussion lists• Interactive games• Statistics• Database linking• Personalisation• Externally-Hosted Web services

• Automation of publishing functionshttp://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htmhttp://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue18/web-magazine/intro.htmlhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue18/web-magazine/intro.html

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Example - Statistics

• Hit parades• Externally hosted Web stats

http://www.bmj.com/hitparade/http://www.bmj.com/hitparade/

http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/statistics/http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/statistics/

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Example - Feedback

Feedback forms

Polls

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rdf/?dwzone=xmlhttp://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rdf/?dwzone=xml

http://www.bmj.com/misc/strawpolls.shtmlhttp://www.bmj.com/misc/strawpolls.shtml

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Example Magazines

See the workshop home page for example magazines:

<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/stimulate-2001/><http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/stimulate-2001/>