Comment on print journal / digital world by sarah.werner

sarah.werner
Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:32:45 +0000

A clarification: I think what's important here is not the format in which scholars read the material--yes, very few folks, undergrads or faculty, are reading journals in print--but the mechanism by which it is published. All of the journals mentioned are available through JSTOR, among other online collections, and most of them are probably primarily being discovered and read that way. But any content they publish only online, on their home websites, is not going to be found in JSTOR. Faculty are hardly clueless for recognizing that. And if that material is not being peer reviewed (through whatever process is being used), it's certainly going to count for less in the eyes of the folks who do the counting.