Paper Info
Title
Two Large-Scale Surveys of Electronic Publication in the United Kingdom
Abstract
The Department of Information Science at Loughborough University has carried out several user studies on electronic journals in recent years, including the ELVYN and Cafe Jus projects. We now report on two large-scale surveys carried out in mid 1998 to early 1999, with which this department was associated. The first was conducted under contract to the UK governmentís Department of Trade and Industry between April and December 1998, and involved a questionnaire survey to all UK-based publishing enterprises, to investigate their intentions and expectations about electronic publishing; over 1,000 responses were achieved. These results provide an authoritative picture of the British publishing industryís views about the potential commercial prospects for electronic publishing. A subset survey looked specifically at the responses that came from scholarly journal publishers, and the results from this group are compared and contrasted with those from the overall group of publishers. The second is a study by the (UK) Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, who conducted a large-scale survey of authors of papers in the scholarly journals published by the associationís member societies. This survey investigated the attitudes and opinions of learned journal authors towards electronic publishing; it was thought that the interests of authors might be quite different from those of publishers. Questionnaires were sent out by the individual societies to their own authors, and over 3000 responses were received. Although the journals are all UK-published, the authors surveyed came from all parts of the world. This paper compares and contrasts the results from publishers with those from authors, and considers them in the context of this departmentís earlier results from users, and other recent studies.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1999
ELPUB 1997
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Field
DocType
Citations 
World Wide Web,Kingdom,Computer science,Information science,Professional association,Publishing,Library science,Questionnaire,User studies,Electronic publishing
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fytton Rowland117220.45