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Hypermedia Online Publishing: the Transformation of the Scholarly Journal

9.3 Transformations in the function of journals

This section deals with the research question:

Will the move into an online hypermedia environment alter the functions of the scholarly journal?

Function is defined specifically as those functions provided by the scholarly journal and its articles to the scholarly community. These functions can be summarised as:

defining a citeable unit for acknowledgement
fixing a scholar's views at a particular time
providing gatekeeping or filtering of material
providing timely communication of results and ideas
enabling access to information within a given discipline

9.3.1 Insights from theoretical perspectives

9.3.2 Insights from research literature

9.3.3 Insights from thesis surveys

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