The library as a mediator for e-publishing

Article Review

1. Denmark is a small country but with a large and diverse scholarly publishing environment. There are many small journals, mostly in English. A majority of these see the potential in online publishing but do not gave resources and capabilities to do so. Furthermore they have a conservative business model (i.e, Finance) that doesn’t encourage an open access publishing strategy. The study reveals that the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) library provides low risk environment for small journals related to the business sholl to make a gradual transition to e-publishing / e-archiving. The authors found out that the major hurdles to migrate to online in Denmark are lack of fund and lack of sufficient techno-savvy personals. The study also discuss about the Open Journal Systems (OJS) in Denmark. Copenhagen Business School has started e-publishing of scientific articles from their ‘own journals’ in a logical step. The largest university in Denmark, the University of Copenhagen was planning to start an e-publishing project in autumn of 2007. Its university library supports an active blog on open access. This paper includes a case study of “Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies”, and “Foucault Studies” published from Denmark and moved from print to online publishing.

Mikel K Elber and Lars Nondal (2007). The library as a mediator for e-publishing: A case on how a library can become a significant factor in facilitating digital scholarly communication and open access publishing for less web-savvy journals. First Monday 12 (10).