EJI: A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features and Functionalities

[Gerry Mckiernan]

   _EJI: A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features and Functionalities_

  I am pleased to announce the establishment of a new registry entitled _EJI_
[pronounced E.J.I. _or_ 'edgy"}. _EJI_ is a registry of "Innovative E-Journal Features and Functionalities" available at 

            [   http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ]

   Presently the following categories have been established for EJI:

   *  Accelerated Publication
   * Citation Management
   * Collective E-Journals
   * Indexing
   * Issue-In-Progress
   * Manuscript Submission and Tracking Systems
   * Open Peer Review
   * Overlay E-Journals
   * Personalized E-Journals
   * Reactive E-Journals
   * Virtual E-Journals
   * Virtual Filing Cabinets

    I have chosen not to define each category at this time and hope that 
MyWebColleague  will understand the nature of each category by visiting the linked entries.

   I am greatly interested in learning about *other* e-journals that have these features and functionalities.

   I am also interested in learning about other 'innovative' or 'cutting-edge' e-journal features and functionalities as well as the e-journals that exhibit these.
I have identified several additional features and functionalities and hope that MYWebColleagues are aware of such progressive e-journals. These are:

      * Annotative E-Journals
             E-Journals that permit a reader to annotate the text of 
             an e-article with personal comments [This category would also 
            e-journals that allow a reader to highlight within an e-article or to 
            make verbal annotations that would be appended to the 
             text. It could also include e-journals that include an audio 
            annotation by the author(s) to supplement an e-article's text]

       * Collaborative E-Journals
             E-Journal that include a features that allows a reader 
             to retrieve the articles that were read by other readers 
             who also read the article currently being read by 
             a reader [The Amazon feature " Those who bought Book A 
             also bought Book B, C and D]

       * Raw and Supplemental Data    / Computer Code
             This would include e-journals that allow an author 
              to include direct / access to raw or supplemental
              data that is analyzed in the e-article; or software
              code for analyzing the data

        * Interactive Formulae, Graphs and/or Models
              This would include e-journals that allow readers to 
              interactive with formulas with the text of an article 
              to consider other possibilities with other data
              or datasets

         * Relatedness
            This a function found in Science Citation Index CD-ROM
            that allows for the identification of 'related' papers based upon 
            the degree of shared references. This made be identified as
            a 'related' function in the e-journal or a 'find similar' function.

         * Database Access
           This would include e-journals that provide either 
            explicit or implicit access to database records either as
           a separate database (e.g., Medline) or as a link to database
           records (e.g., Science Direct)

          * Advanced Display
             This would include e-journals that provide the ability to display 
             the results of a search in an alternative format, for example. using  
            visualization technologies  such as SPIRE  and other visualization 
             technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National 
             Laboratory [ http://multimedia.pnl.gov:2080/infoviz/index.html ],  
            or those developed out of Xerox PARC [http://www.inxight.com/ ]
            or Kohomen Self-Organzing Semantic  Maps (SOMs) 
             [  e.g., http://websom.hut.fi/websom/ ]

        * E-Journal Page Customization
           E-Journals that allow a reader to customize an e-journal 
          based upon personal display or organizational  preferences          

                         [QUITE A LIST, Huh? [:-)]

    As Always, Any and All Contributions, Suggestions, Candidates, Critiques, Questions, Comments, Recounts, Cosmic Insights. etc. Are Most Welcome!

    Regards,

Gerry McKiernan
Edgy Librarian 
Iowa State University 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

           "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It!"
                                                Alan Kay