Schneider, Andreas and Mike Sosteric. 2001. “Seven Years of Electronic Publishing: The Electronic Journal of Sociology.” Footnotes September/October 6:14.
Media
· Web-born eJournals
· WWW representation of printed journals
Access
· Subscription based
· Open access
o Subsidized
o Payment by the author
· Moderated
· Peer reviewed
· The editor cannot be a specialist for all aspects of the contributions.
· Get second opinion
· Avoid Cronyism
In the selection process the editor is in a dilemma:
· To avoid conflict of interests or partiality, the reviewer tries to avoid using close colleagues of the author as reviewers.
· People closest to the author know best about his work.
· "single-masked" or “blind”
"double-masked" or double-blind”
Open
Structured
Semi-structured
Used by current editor Gary Alan Fine and the previous editor Spencer Cahill
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