Türkiye'de Bilimsel Elektronik Dergiler
Özet
This study aims to establish the profile
of Turkish scholarly electronic journals. Initially,
scholarly electronic journals were identified.
Then, the journals’ inventory was established and
analyses for establishing a country profile were
performed by using the data gathered from the
inventory. Some 253 “scholarly electronic
journals” were identified, and 60% of those
journals are published by Turkish universities and
10% of them are electronic only. Two-thirds of
the present journals have started e-publishing
after the year 2000 and only four journals’ back
issues go back to 20 years or earlier. It is
observed that, information technology is not
being fully integrated into the function and
process of e-publishing. For example, access
points to journals’ contents are limited: only 39%
of the journals facilitate search in current and
back issues. Again, just 19% of the present
journals accept online article submission.
Examination of subjects and languages of
journals has shown that researchers in health
sciences (37%) and social sciences (34%) are the
two major groups that strive to publish in
electronic journals. Other subject groups are in a
slow transformation process. Languages other
than Turkish are also used for scholarly
communication in Turkish journals (39% of
journals are in only Turkish). Some 94% of
journals provide open access.