Electronic access to Iranian scholarly Journals of agriculture area
2009
Bahmanabadi, A.R., Faculty Member of Agricultural Scientific Information and Documentation Center
About 48 scholarly journals are published in Iran in the area of agriculture and related fields which are responsible for the scientific communication among Iranian researchers and scientists of the area. The present research aimed to examine the accessibility degree of these journals on the web. The results show that these 48 journals have published 1921 issues by the end of March 2007. about 31% of these issues have been converted into electronic form (19% in full text form and 11.9% as abstract) and are available through the internet. While 30 publishers have provided direct access to their journals (through their independent or affiliated websites), 11 publishers have made available indirect access to their journals through some mediator websites. The results also indicate that the journals that came into existence in recent years tend to make their content available in electronic form. Almost none of the preceding issues of 1997 have been converted into electronic form. According to the findings of this survey, the number of issues providing full text papers has gradually increased. On the other hand, a review of the journals'; websites also shows that about 60% of them are up to date, 89% of them have an archive of their previous issues, and 57% of the journals provide their users with search/ browse facilities. Key words: Electronic Journals; Scholarly Journals; Journals'; Websites; Accessibility; Internet; Agriculture; Iran
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