Tenure and promotion: Are you willing to publish an article in an e-zine? (one)

Since the early 1990s, the rapid development of information and communication technology has greatly affected the availability of information throughout the world, and it has played a role in the confirmation and dissemination of professional academic achievements and the use of mechanisms such as the reconstruction of consumers. The important role. The recognition and dissemination of academic achievements mainly operates through the peer review of publications. It is this mechanism and its association with the Internet-based electronic publishing that constitutes the study of people’s attitudes towards academic publications in electronic formats. Focus.

Academic achievement, publication, and academic reward system "Scholarship" refers to "many accumulated knowledge and knowledge of a particular field or discipline" and also refers to the process of generating a specific knowledge structure. The academic reward system is built to encourage the improvement of academic quality. It is mainly manifested through the publication of academic achievements in publications, especially the publication of academic papers submitted by academics in specific fields. These publications will be used by peers in those fields. They are widely read and recognized. The publication of academic papers in publications is part of the work of researchers. In most universities and research institutions, the publication of academic papers is largely related to the issue of wages and job security. The quality and academic height of academic papers published in certain recognized academic or professional journals are the main yardsticks for measuring the value of a scholar and for assessing the legitimacy of his promotion and tenure. However, not all publications can be generalized. There are often fierce competitions in publishing papers in some top magazines. Varian believes that the layout requirements in these publications are usually very tight, because these publications are very famous, many people are required to read each period. Papers published in leading magazines are an important measure of author's popularity. In some areas, citations have been an important and convincing testimony of the “influence” of published works. The work is cited as a way to prove that the article published by the author is actually read.

Publishing papers in important paper magazines takes one to two years. In the middle, it takes a series of procedures such as submitting formal papers, claiming receipts, listening to peer review comments, correcting and correcting, accepting formal paper acceptance, and printing and publishing. As teachers often emphasize the number of papers published within a certain period of time in terms of promotion and lifetime job requirements, publishers stated that they are addressing the needs of teachers, such as creating new magazines and expanding editions of existing magazines. Dixon believes that the pressure of paper publication can be basically eased under the e-magazine publishing environment. Because of this publishing condition, papers can be submitted directly in electronic form easily, and online community exchanges are frequent. The paper editing package software can be obtained free of charge. Strangely, Whisler thought in 1997 that “... if scholars are allowed to go to work, it is very likely that they will establish an electronic world where publishers and librarians will find that their status has weakened or they have no position at all. It can be said."

E-magazine has become a growing trend Academic exchange is a vital part of academic research and acquisition of new knowledge. It is the driving force behind various conferences and gatherings in a subject area. It is particularly important to point out that academic communication is the main function of academic magazine publications and it plays an important role in helping to understand what other researchers are studying to avoid duplication with them. Therefore, scholars generally want to make extensive contacts with academic journals in their fields.
"The electronic version of the academic magazine has not yet been fully recognized. It has not yet become an orthodox paper publication field."

Since the early 1990s, the rapid development of information and communication technology has largely affected the knowledge release mechanism of university teachers and other researchers. In my previous research areas (science education, chemistry, biochemistry, etc.), there are more than 100 academic journals in electronic form. All of them are published by Elsevier Science, Taylor & Francis, Wiley Interscience, and Kluwer Academic Publishers. The American Journal of Science (founded in 1818 as the oldest magazine still published in the United States) has now published the contents and abstracts of its 1995-1999 paper in its electronic version. The American Journal of Mathematics, the oldest mathematical journal in the Western Hemisphere, which began publishing in 1878, has published full-text electronic research papers since 1996.

As Kling and Covi (1995) wrote in their paper, it is not difficult to find that the number of e-magazines ranging from theoretical computer science to medieval literature has grown every year, and it is easy to find many scholars through electronics. The media has obtained new research results and related papers more quickly.

The Electronic Journal of Differential Equations describes itself as:

The EJDE is devoted to the rapid dissemination of high-quality research results in the field of mathematics. The adoption of research papers is treated in the same way as the best quality paper magazines. The acceptance of conference proceedings and long-standing essay papers (single papers) is determined by the editors.

It is clear that the magazine (EJDE) places great emphasis on its superiority over paper magazines. That is the rapid circulation of manuscripts and the rapid release of research findings. EJDE also emphasizes that it has the same high level of peer review as traditional paper magazines. The topics in this section will discuss this issue in more depth.

Peer review: Not a typical product of a paper magazine Harnad wrote in 1982, 1986, and 1996. He specifically talked about academic publishing in e-magazines. He believed that electronic media had nothing special to do with scientific quality control. Scholars who review papers for e-magazines also need to review and estimate the value of their papers before the papers are formally recognized and accepted by academics as a discipline. Of course, there are some problems with the peer review system, and even famous academic publishers such as Harnad have reservations about it. He wrote in 1996 that it has its imperfections like democracy, but whether it is paper media or not The system of communication or electronic communication has certain feasibility. We will not elaborate on its flaws here.

In a recent comprehensive analysis article, Ryder talked about many issues related to peer review of electronic academic journals, including the ownership of papers, the construction of peer reviewers, and the concept of text styling. However, the specific exploration of these issues is beyond the scope of the current research. With the ever-evolving debate on the electronic version of academic journals, this issue is becoming increasingly important in the academic community.

Kling and Covi pointed out in 1995 that although the number of electronic academic journals has grown rapidly, they have not been fully accepted as orthodox publications in various academic fields. They suspect that the integrity of e-magazine's peer review process may be compromised. Kling and Covi wrote:

“As with paper media publications, articles submitted to e-magazines may not be edited or processed by editorial committees with high academic standards. Today, many scholars still doubt the format and academic quality of e-magazines. The situation is that they think that ezine must be lower than the academic quality of paper media magazines, because according to their understanding, those things on e-magazines are not physical and may be short-lived, ambiguous, superficial, Unreal things are not trustworthy. In fact, some people still think that e-magazines can publish high-quality papers, but those articles are not yet known to those critics."

What about scholars' general assertions about the legitimacy of the electronic academic journals and those magazine papers? The following section of this article will provide the perspectives of a group of university administrators and university faculty members in Florida and discuss what this understanding of university teachers and members of the broader academic community within the Florida State University system means.

Survey Methods The Florida State University system consists of 10 public universities, which are Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida The University of South Florida and the University of West Florida.

The author has collected the names and e-mail addresses of all top-level university administrators from the above 10 organizations. These include university presidents, provosts / vice presidents in charge of academic affairs, and college deans. The author also obtained the e-mail address of all teachers in his unit at the University of Central Florida. They then sent a letter to the 75 managers and the teachers, and asked the managers to send the letter to the department heads and all the people involved in the promotion and tenure decision. This letter contains a questionnaire and survey form and invites them to participate in this survey on electronic academic publishing. The author promised them not to reveal their identity.

The other data from this study was obtained from an editor of an e-learning magazine in the author's field. The author also contacted the editor through e-mail and hoped that he would establish an electronic one already in his subject area. Academic scholars provide their own opinions. All of the data used in this article was collected in February and March 2000.

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