The Enhanced Journal Article: Illustrations of Web-based

Innovations

Association of Learned and Professional Society PublishersALPSP International Conference

9-11 September 2009

Nicholas W. JankowskiVisiting Fellow

Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities & Social Sciences (VKS)Amsterdam, the Netherlands

nickjan@xs4all.nl

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Overview of Presentation

• I. F. Stone’s Weekly

• Illustrations: – contemporary scholarly journals– enhancement– radical enhancement

• Concluding reflections

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D.D. Guttenplan, American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009)

(video & interview transcript with Guttenplan)

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Illustrations: Contemporary scholarly journal publishing

Contemporary• Sage Online• Internet & Higher Education • International Journal of Internet Science• First MondayInnovative• In Media Res• Scientific American• Vectors, Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic VernacularRadical• International Journal of Learning and Media• Article of the Future (Elsevier / Cell Press)

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First Monday

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In Media Res

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Scientific American

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Vectors, Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

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International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM)

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International Journal of Learning and Media

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Article of the Future: Prototype 1

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Article of the Future: 2

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Article of the Future: 3 (Prototype 2)

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Article of the Future: 4

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Reactions to the Prototypes• Nothing new• Underestimation of editorial investment• Underestimation of author willingness• Misguided estimation of reader interest

Illustrations of comments in blogsphere• Online Journalism Blog• the scholarly kitchen• ReadWriteWeb• Ptsefton• nature network

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Concluding Remarks• Disciplinary variance; no single route to

enhancement• Enhancement: a community endeavor• Needed: willingness to experiment• Enhancement: more than surface deep• Undetermined: role / place of social media

I.F. Stone’s Weekly in the Internet Age:enhanced, but serving the argument….

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