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Faculty perceptions of electronic journals as scholarly communication: A question of prestige and legitimacy

✍ Scribed by Speier, Cheri ;Palmer, Jonathan ;Wren, Daniel ;Hahn, Susan


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
55 KB
Volume
50
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-8231

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✦ Synopsis


Recent years have seen a proliferation of electronic journals across academic disciplines. Electronic journals offer many advantages to multiple constituencies, however, their acceptance by faculty and university promotion and tenure committees is unclear. This research examines perceptions of faculty and promotion and tenure committee members regarding the perceived prestige and legitimacy of electronic journals as an outlet for scholarly communication.