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Abstract
This study surveys the landscape of scholarly publishing, with particular emphasis on scholarly journals in the communication discipline, measuring the shift to electronic publishing in six selected disciplines and exploring two other important emerging topics: open-access publishing and new journal citation metrics. The goals are to inform communication researchers about emerging topics in scholarly publishing; to provide updated information about the proportion of electronic-only journals; to compare the impact of electronic-only journals and open-access journals to other journals in the same discipline; and to provide a list of communication journals showing each journal’s Impact Factor, open-access status, and other information relevant to researchers’ decisions about publication venue.
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Author Biographies
Karen Antell is public services librarian and associate professor, University Libraries, and affiliate associate professor, Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, at the University of Oklahoma. She earned her master’s of library and information studies at the University of Oklahoma.
Joe S. Foote is professor, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jody Bales Foote is geology librarian and associate professor, Youngblood Energy Library, at the University of Oklahoma. She earned her master’s of library science at the University of Texas at Austin.
