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2.0 Literature Review
Using of high quality electronic journals is a necessity in the academic and scholarly world. This section summarizes the evolution of printed journal up to present electronic journals along with discussions of high quality electronic journals usage and the availability of high impact factor journals. All information collects for this study consists from variety sources which comprise of electronic journals, search engines, online database, and books. Literature reviews are useful for synthesizing what has been done so far, and for identifying what needs to be done.
2.1 Electronic Journal Development
Electronic resources represent a large portion of many libraries’s information resources. Libraries no longer operate in a purely physical, but more often in a hybrid environment with print and electronic information resources available side by side. With the development of the Internet and the wealth of electronic resources, large portions of libraries' collections are no longer kept on shelves, but are available electronically.
The first experiment with a true scholarly journal with editorial standards and refereeing procedures was conducted with a journal on mental workload within the Electronic Information Exchange System beginning in 1979 (Turoff & Hiltz, 1982). Later, in 1980, the British Library awarded a grant to Loughborough University to establish an experimental online journal in the area of computer human factors (Shackel, 1991).
In the early 1990s, publishers and universities explored ways of creating electronic journals that could be retrieved on the users’ desktop. There was a significant growth in the number of electronic journals in these days. The 7th edition (1997) of The ARL Dir...
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The history of the e-book spans a longer period than many people would realise. Most people would assume that the internet came before the e-book. However, this is not the case. The first ever e-book was the U.S. Declaration of Independence. It was typed up by the founder of Project Gutenberg, Michael S Hart, in 1971 whereas the internet was not created until 1974. Even then, it was not the internet we know today. In order to chronicle a history of e-books up to the present day the following issues must be addressed. What were the initial forms of e-books like; what kind of formats are used in electronic publishing; what sorts of devices are used to read electronically; what is digital rights management, and how does it apply to the e-book; and what impact has the e-book had on the way books are price and on publishing business models.
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The value of journal writing to a course with adult students cannot be overemphasized. (Sommer 1989, p. 115)
With the advancement of technology and the exponential increase of Internet use, professionals-academic and business-are relying on electronic resources for information, research, and data. The Internet gives an individual access to a sea of information, data, and knowledge; plus, this vast amount of information is available in a matter of seconds, rather than hours or days. The ease of access, availability, up-to-the-second timeliness, and vastness of online resources is causing many professionals, however, to forgo the use of print sources. Online resources are useful to conduct scholarly research and 'may be convenient, but they have shortcomings that make print sources necessary for submitting high-quality assignments' (Dilevko & Gottieb, 2002, ¶ 1).