The Journals Revolution: A Primer
Further Readings
Coles, Brian R. ed. The scientific, technical and medical information system in the UK: a study on behalf of The Royal Society, The British Library and The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (British Library R&D report no. 6123), London, 1993.
Chandler, Adam. A Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management.
Counter: Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources.
De Solla Price, Derek J.Little Science, Big Science, Columbia University Press, 1963.
Fjällbrant, Nancy. “Scholarly Communication - Historical Development and New Possibilities.”IATUL Proceedings 7, Trondheim, 1997. Available at
Garfield, Eugene. “The flood of the scientific literature is only a myth.” The Scientist 5, no. 12(September 1991).
Katzen, M. F. “The Changing Appearance of Research Journals in Science and Technology.” In Development of Science Publishing in Europe, ed. A. J. Meadows, 177-214, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1980.
King, Donald W., Carol Tenopir, Carol H. Montgomery, and Sarah E. Aerni.
“Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities.” D-Lib Magazine 9, no.10 (October 2003). Available at
King, Donald W., Sarah Aerni, Fern Brody, Matt Herbison, and Paul Kohberger. “Comparative Cost of the University of Pittsburgh Electronic and Print Library Collections.” The Sara Fine Institute for Interpersonal Behavior and Technology, 2004. Available at
King, Donald W. and Carol Tenopir, “An evidence-based assessment of the ‘author pays’ Model.” Nature Forum (June 25, 2004).Available at
King, Donald W. “Some Thoughts on Academic Library Collections.” Journal of Academic Librarianship 30, no.4 (July 2004): 261-264.
King, Donald W. and Carol Tenopir. “Scholarly journal and Digital Database Pricing: Threat or Opportunity?” In Bits and Bucks: Economics and Usage of Digital Collections, eds. J.MacKie-Mason and W.Lougee, Chapter 3, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. Available at
Mabe, Michael. “Digital Dilemmas: electronic challenges for the scientific journal publisher.” ASLIB Proceedings53, no.3,(March 2001): 85-92.
Mabe, Michael and Mayur Amin. “Dr Jekyll and Dr Hyde: Author–Reader Asymmetries in Scholarly Publishing.” ASLIB Proceedings54, no. 3 (March 2002): 149-157.
Mabe, Michael.“The Growth and Number of Journals” Serials 16, no. 2(2003): 191-7.
Manten, A. A. “Growth of European Science Publishing before 1850” In Development of Science Publishing in Europe, ed. A. J. Meadows, 1-22, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1980.
Meadows, A.J. Communicating Research, Academic Press, 1998.
Montgomery, Carol H. and Donald W. King.“Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections: A First Step Towards a Comprehensive Analysis.”D-Lib Magazine 8, no.10 (October 2002).
Montgomery, Carol H. and Donald W. King.“After Migration to an Electronic Journal Collection: Impact on Faculty and Doctoral Students.”D-Lib Magazine 8, no.12 (December 2002).
Morris, Sally. “Who Needs Publishers?” Journal of Information Science25, no.1 (1999): 85-88.
Odlyzko, Andrew. “The economics of electronic journals.” Journal of Electronic Publishing4, no.1, 1998. Available at
Page, Gillian. “Economics of Journal Publishing” In The International Serials Industry, eds. H. Woodward and S. Pilling, 61-87. Gower, 1993.
Page, Gillian, Robert Campbell and Jack Meadows. eds. Journal Publishing, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Pullinger, D and C. Baldwin. Electronic Journals and User Behavior, Deedot press, 2002.
Rowland, Fytton. “Print journals: fit for the future?” Ariadne 7, no. 27, 1997.
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Schonfeld, Roger C., Donald W. King, Ann Okerson and Eileen Gifford Fenton.“Library Periodicals Expenses: Comparison of Non-Subscription Costs of Print and Electronic Formats on a Life-Cycle Basis.”D-Lib Magazine 10, no.1 (January 2004).
Schonfeld, Roger C., Donald W. King, Ann Okerson and Eileen Gifford Fenton, “The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs Between Print and Electronic Formats.” Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington D.C. (June 2004).
Tenopir, Carol and Donald W. King. Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers. Washington, DC: Special Libraries Association, 2000.
Tenopir, Carol, Donald W. King, Peter Boyce, Matt Grayson, Yan Zhang and Mercy
Ebuen. “Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists Through Three Evolutionary
Phases.” D-Lib Magazine 9, no.5 (May 2003). Available at
Tenopir, Carol and Donald W. King. Communication Patterns of Engineers. NY: IEEE/Wiley Interscience, 2004.
Tenopir, Carol, Donald W. King, Peter Boyce, Matt Grayson, and Kerry-Lynn
Paulson. “Relying on Electronic Journals: Reading Patterns of Astronomers.”
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(JASIST), April 2005, forthcoming. Preprint available at