JSTOR: A Case Study in the Recent History of Scholarly Communications

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Main Author: Schonfeld, Roger C.
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2005
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contents JSTOR: A Case Study in the Recent History of Scholarly Communications Schonfeld, Roger C. Evidence Higher Education Historians Case Studies Influence of Technology Foreign Countries Scholarship Information Management Organizational Development Knowledge Management Electronic Journals Electronic Libraries Historiography Purpose: To argue for the consideration from an historical perspective of technology-enabled changes in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Uses examples from the author's history of JSTOR as a case study. Findings: That the case of JSTOR offers evidence that technology-enabled changes in higher education will have historical interest. Research limitations/implications: Although the author presents only examples from JSTOR, historians should begin to give attention to the overall changes taking place in scholarly communications and higher education. Practical implications: Suggests further areas of research for historians, information scientists, and graduate students. Originality/value: This work should be of interest to library and information professionals, business historians, and perhaps economic historians interested in the information industries. (Contains 1 table.)
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spellingShingle JSTOR: A Case Study in the Recent History of Scholarly Communications
Schonfeld, Roger C.
Evidence
Higher Education
Historians
Case Studies
Influence of Technology
Foreign Countries
Scholarship
Information Management
Organizational Development
Knowledge Management
Electronic Journals
Electronic Libraries
Historiography
JSTOR: A Case Study in the Recent History of Scholarly Communications Schonfeld, Roger C. Evidence Higher Education Historians Case Studies Influence of Technology Foreign Countries Scholarship Information Management Organizational Development Knowledge Management Electronic Journals Electronic Libraries Historiography Purpose: To argue for the consideration from an historical perspective of technology-enabled changes in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Uses examples from the author's history of JSTOR as a case study. Findings: That the case of JSTOR offers evidence that technology-enabled changes in higher education will have historical interest. Research limitations/implications: Although the author presents only examples from JSTOR, historians should begin to give attention to the overall changes taking place in scholarly communications and higher education. Practical implications: Suggests further areas of research for historians, information scientists, and graduate students. Originality/value: This work should be of interest to library and information professionals, business historians, and perhaps economic historians interested in the information industries. (Contains 1 table.)
title JSTOR: A Case Study in the Recent History of Scholarly Communications
topic Evidence
Higher Education
Historians
Case Studies
Influence of Technology
Foreign Countries
Scholarship
Information Management
Organizational Development
Knowledge Management
Electronic Journals
Electronic Libraries
Historiography
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ921886