Electronic article

Electronic articles are articles in scholarly journals or magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. The are a specialized form of electronic document, with a specialized content, purpose, format, metadata, and availability–they consist of individual articles from scholarly journals or magazines (and now sometimes popular magazines), they have the purpose of providing material for academic research and study, they are formatted approximately like printed journal articles, the metadata is entered into specialized databases, such as DOAJ or OACI as well as the databases for the discipline, and they are predominantly available through academic libraries and special libraries, generally at a fixed charge.

Electronic articles can be found as articles in online-only journals, as online versions of articles that appeared in printed journals, The term can also be used for the electronic versions of less formal publications, such as online archives, working paper archives from universities, government agencies, private and public think tanks and institutes and private websites. In many academic areas, specialized Bibliographic databasess are available to find their online content. ,

Most commercial sites are subscription-based, or allow pay-per-view access. Many universities subscribe to electronic journals to provide access to their students and faculty, and it is generally also possible for individuals to subscribe. An increasing number of journals are now available with open access, requiring no subscription. Most working paper archives and articles on personal homepages are free, as are collections in Institutional repositories and Subject repositories.

The most common formats of transmission are HTML, PDF and, in specialized fields like mathematics and physics, TeX and PostScript.

References

* [http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/9810/msg00000.html] an announcement at "Liblicense-l," the standard international Listserv for libraries and publishers on serials licensing, pricing, and supply.
* [http://www.arl.org/scomm/near.html National Electronic Article Repository proposal] from the Association of Research Libraries
* [http://www.acm.org/pubs/surveys/Formatting.html ACM format standards for electronic articles]

ee also

* Academic publishing
* Bibliographic database
* Electronic journal
* Open access journal

External links

* [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Just.htm Just-in-Time(sm): Electronic Article Delivery Services] from Iowa State University