Mohamed Musthafa. K
Abstract
When the computer and electronic media
are used for scholarly communication of any intellectual output, it is called
electronic publishing. The present study is an attempt to find authors’
attitude and experience in electronic publishing of their scholarly research in
India. The study was carried out by using a standardized questionnaire
administered among 264 authors and out of these 256 questionnaires (96.96%),
were selected for analysis and constitutes the population sample. The result
shows that people
in their middle age is more active in e-publishing activities. Among the
participants 36.67 percent had published in electronic journals at least once
in the last three years. Minimum
publishing gap and fast dissemination of research are the main reasons for
preferring electronic publishing. The most often reported time between the
submission and publication was three to six months (42.96%). Maximum number of
authors (73%) participated in the survey use e-mail as medium to submit their
manuscripts to the publisher and 92 percent (n=231) showed willingness to
publish again in electronic journals.
Proper awareness and training should be given to the young researchers
and scientists to encourage electronic publishing.
Keywords: E-Publishing,
Electronic Publishing, Scholarly Communication, Open Access Publishing, Authors, India
MANLIBNET International Conference, IIM, Indore. 11-13
October, 2012
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