10.8 Case Study of the JournalServerSM Virtual...


JournalServer is an Oxford-based international initiative to create a digital library of academic journals freely available to the public. It involves the collaboration of several leading universities across the world. As of May, 2007, there were 8 journals listed, of which only 5 had any actual content available. JournalServer assists peer-reviewed academic journals to be accessible free of cost, and to promote the use of these journals by the international community. The project objectives are (Wiki article 2009):

To promote access to peer-reviewed journals by means of a digital library of scholarly publications freely
available through the Internet.
To assist scholars and publishers from low and middle income countries in making the transition to electronic
modes of publication and dissemination.
The cost and complexity of making the upgrade is constrained to a small subset of the overall network.
To strive to reduce the impact of the digital divide and the scholarly communication crisis.