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Subject: EJI: A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features
andFunctionalities
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:20:46 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>

   _EJI: A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features and
Functionalities_

  I am pleased to announce the establishment of a new registry entitled
_EJI_
[pronounced E.J.I. _or_ 'edgy"}. _EJI_ is a registry of "Innovative
E-Journal Features and Functionalities" available at

            [   http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ]

   Presently the following categories have been established for EJI:

   *  Accelerated Publication
   * Citation Management
   * Collective E-Journals
   * Indexing
   * Issue-In-Progress
   * Manuscript Submission and Tracking Systems
   * Open Peer Review
   * Overlay E-Journals
   * Personalized E-Journals
   * Reactive E-Journals
   * Virtual E-Journals
   * Virtual Filing Cabinets

    I have chosen not to define each category at this time and hope that
MyWebColleague  will understand the nature of each category by visiting
the linked entries.

   I am greatly interested in learning about *other* e-journals that
have these features and functionalities.

   I am also interested in learning about other 'innovative' or
'cutting-edge' e-journal features and functionalities as well as the
e-journals that exhibit these.
I have identified several additional features and functionalities and
hope that MYWebColleagues are aware of such progressive e-journals.
These are:

      * Annotative E-Journals
             E-Journals that permit a reader to annotate the text of
             an e-article with personal comments [This category would
also
            e-journals that allow a reader to highlight within an
e-article or to
            make verbal annotations that would be appended to the
             text. It could also include e-journals that include an
audio
            annotation by the author(s) to supplement an e-article's
text]

       * Collaborative E-Journals
             E-Journal that include a features that allows a reader
             to retrieve the articles that were read by other readers
             who also read the article currently being read by
             a reader [The Amazon feature " Those who bought Book A
             also bought Book B, C and D]

       * Raw and Supplemental Data    / Computer Code
             This would include e-journals that allow an author
              to include direct / access to raw or supplemental
              data that is analyzed in the e-article; or software
              code for analyzing the data

        * Interactive Formulae, Graphs and/or Models
              This would include e-journals that allow readers to
              interactive with formulas with the text of an article
              to consider other possibilities with other data
              or datasets

         * Relatedness
            This a function found in Science Citation Index CD-ROM
            that allows for the identification of 'related' papers based
upon
            the degree of shared references. This made be identified as
            a 'related' function in the e-journal or a 'find similar'
function.

         * Database Access
           This would include e-journals that provide either
            explicit or implicit access to database records either as
           a separate database (e.g., Medline) or as a link to database
           records (e.g., Science Direct)

          * Advanced Display
             This would include e-journals that provide the ability to
display
             the results of a search in an alternative format, for
example. using
            visualization technologies  such as SPIRE  and other
visualization
             technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National
             Laboratory [
http://multimedia.pnl.gov:2080/infoviz/index.html ],
            or those developed out of Xerox PARC
[http://www.inxight.com/ ]
            or Kohomen Self-Organzing Semantic  Maps (SOMs)
             [  e.g., http://websom.hut.fi/websom/ ]

        * E-Journal Page Customization
           E-Journals that allow a reader to customize an e-journal
          based upon personal display or organizational  preferences

                         [QUITE A LIST, Huh? [:-)]

    As Always, Any and All Contributions, Suggestions, Candidates,
Critiques, Questions, Comments, Recounts, Cosmic Insights. etc. Are Most
Welcome!

    Regards,

Gerry McKiernan
Edgy Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu

           "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It!"
                                                Alan Kay