National Educational Network

National Educational Network, Inc. (NENI) www.neni.us

Professional and Scholarly Journals

http://www.citejournal.org/vol6/iss3/ The CITE Journal is an online, peer-reviewed journal, established and jointly sponsored by five professional associations (AMTE, ASTE, NCSS-CUFA, CEE, and SITE). This is the only joint venture of this kind in the field of teacher education. Each professional association has sole responsibility for editorial review of articles in its discipline.

http://www.doaj.org/ This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3289 journals in the directory. There are more than 1,000 journals searchable at the article level.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/1959655.html Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.

White Papers / Research Papers about Journals

http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/papers96/EJOURNAL.HTM Article on scholarly E-journals: The rise in popularity of the Internet has had an enormous impact on scholarly communication, especially with the development of the electronic journal. There are a number of advantages to reading and publishing scholarly articles in electronic form, but there are some problems that have yet to be solved before electronic publication becomes widespread. Some organizations and publishers are trying to find a compromise between traditional print journals and their electronic counterparts. There will likely be a lengthy period of transition as academics begin to see the advantages of retrieving their research via the Internet.

https://idea.iupui.edu:8443/dspace/bitstream/1805/376/1/economics_scholarly_1989.pdf Economics of the Scholarly Journal: This paper considers the economic nature of the scholarly journal from a theoretical perspective and concludes that it is what economists call a natural monopoly. Natural monopolies exist when the average price of the good falls over the range of demand, and unless a subsidy is provided the good will not be produced in the quantity that provides the most social benefit. the natural monopoly model of the scholarly journal sheds light on the issue of dual pricing and explains how scholarly publishing can be a highly profitable enterprise. Because subsidies should be easier to implement in electronic systems, this alternative may provide a more effective means of scholarly communication.

Articles on the "Scholarly Journal Crisis":

http://www.bc.edu/libraries/about/scholcomm/s-issues

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/about/publications/scholarlycommunication.html#WhatisWhat is the scholarly communication crisis? It is the loss of access to the scholarly research literature, as the rising cost of journal subscriptions far out-strip institutional library budgets. Each year libraries can afford to subscribe to fewer and fewer journals. Over the last 15 years, the price of research journals has risen over 200% (compare with the Consumer Price Index, up 57% over this same period). Consequently, academic libraries are subscribing to fewer and fewer titles - and slashing book buying as well (see ARL's The Impact of Serial Costs on Library Collections).

http://library.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/about.html Covers trends as well as publishing models and initiatives for scholarly journals. Increases awareness about needs related to infrastructure and long-term access of digital content.