What's scholarly, and what ain't.

[Linda Woods Hyman]

At 12:21 PM 10/29/98 -0800, you wrote:
According to a professor buddy of mine, electronic journals are not
considered "publishing." Therefore, she is not submitting anything to
journals that are 'merely' electronic until these articles would be
recognized for tenure. This thinking may vary from university to university. 

It appears that since they are not considered scholarly, they aren't cited
in scholarly journals.


>Scenario: Academic library with full text access to scholarly journals.
>Faculty member is submitting a manuscript to _Journal of Marketing
>Research_.  He/she is worried that they will not accept the citations to
>electronic full text.  I try to assuage the faculty member, but upon
>inspecting this peer reviewed journal, I can not find any references to
>an electronic full text journal article!  The faculty member, therefore,
>wants the hardcopy on interlibrary loan, so he/she can identify the
>article in the traditional manner.
>
>Other givens: neither the journal's web page nor its "Instructions for
>authors" mentions citations to full text articles.
>
>Has anyone encountered this scenario?  Even if not, please comment on it
>if you are interested.

Linda Woods Hyman
Pacific Bell Education First
NE 287
Department of Educational Technology
San Diego State University
San Diego  CA  92182
(619) 594-4414
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired