This document discusses the potential for electronic journals to go beyond traditional text-based formats by embedding multimedia content like audio, video, and 3D models. It presents several examples of e-journals that have begun incorporating multimedia and proposes categories for an "EJI" registry to track innovative e-journals. The document advocates for a vision of online information that provides more freedom by allowing any information to be connected to any other information.

1. E is for Everything:
The Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary
[e-]
Journal
Gerry McKiernan
Iowa State University Library
Ames, Iowa
gerrymck@iastate.edu
WiLSWorld 2001
The Future’s So Bright …
July 27, 2001
University of Wisconsin, Madison

2. THANK YOU!
Tom Zillner
Coordinator, New Technologies Information
Program
Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS)
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WiLSWorld 2001 Program Committee
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WiLS Support Staff

3. DISCLAIMER
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presentation are for educational
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4. DISCLAIMER
The views and opinions expressed in
this presentation are those of the
presenter and do not constitute an
endorsement by Iowa State
University or its Library.

6. THE
PROBLEM
IS
PAPER
Michael Hiltzik. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox
PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age. New
York: HarperBusiness, c1999, p. 270.

8. Earth Interactions
http://EarthInteractions.org/
• Supports MPEG, QuickTimetm
, VRML
• Allows authors to embed audio narratives
• Allows inclusion of datasets
• Supports interactive equations
• Supports interactive modeling

9. M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded
Multimedia Electronic Journals
M-Bed(sm) is a registry of electronic journals that have
integrated multimedia within the text of their associated
articles. Common types of multimedia include audio and
video files as well as two-dimensional and 3-D models,
and supplemental datasets.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/
M-Bed.htm

13. "Words still have ... primacy,
but they can be illuminated by images
and moving pictures and by numbers and by
sounds.“
Tom Wilson / "In the Beginning Was the Word ..." / ELVIRA2: 1
While e-Journals are still primarily text,
in a digital environment text can be
connected with other text, media,
services, and systems, from other text,
media, services and systems,
with other …

15. ECLECTIC JOURNAL
• A Web-based resource that at its core provides access
to e-journals that offer not only access to the
conventional content of a digital form of a journal
BUT ALSO
• provides or permits interaction with novel and
innovative features and functionalities (e.g., reference
linking, cross-publisher searching, page customization,
open peer review, etc.)
AND
• novel and innovative content (e.g., e-books, pre-
publication history, electronic discussions, translation
services, e-prints, bibliographic databases, etc.)

16. 1
eclec.tic
Pronunciation: e-'klek-tik, i-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek eklektikos, from eklegein to select,
from ex- out + legein to gather -- more at LEGEND
Date: 1683
1 : selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines,
methods, styles
2 : composed of elements drawn from various sources;
HETEROGENEOUS
-eclec.ti.cal.ly /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb
http://www2.yourdictionary.com/index.shtml

18. EJI(sm)
EJI(sm) is a categorized registry of electronic
journals, journal services, or 'knowledge
environments' that offer or provide
innovative or novel access, organization, or
navigational features, functionalities, or
content.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/
EJI.htm

20. EIGHT PERSPECTIVES
• EDITION
• EGO-CENTRIC
• ELECTRIC
• EMPOWERING
• ENTWINED
• EXPLORATIVE
• EXPRESSIVE
• EXTRA

21. EDITION
• Electronic Manuscript Submission and
Refereeing
• Virtual e-Journals
• Synoptic e-Journals

22. Electronic Manuscript
Submission and Refereeing
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Conservation Ecology
Institute of Physics (UK)
ScholarOneTM
High Wire Press

29. Virtual e-Journals
CV Surgery Online
Virtual Journal of Helsinki Medical
Research
Virtual Journal of Nanoscale &
Technology

33. Synoptic e-Journals
Journal Watch Online
Journal Watch Cardiology
Journal Watch Infectious Diseases

36. EGO-CENTRIC
• Alerting Services
• Personalized e-Journals
• Font, Format, and Display Control

37. Alerting Services
JOURNAL X
JOURNAL Y
JOURNAL Z

38. Personalized e-Journals
Institute of Physics (UK)
ScienceDirect®
MCEER Information Service News

43. Font, Format, and Display Control
Internet Journal of Chemistry

54. ELECTRIC
• Indexing and Searching
• Computer Code
• Translation Services

55. Indexing and Searching
Astrophysical Journal
Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Research

68. Computer Code
Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Research

72. Translation Services
Cultivate Interactive

77. EMPOWERING
• Download Options
• Reader Participation
• Virtual Filing Cabinet

78. Download Options
bmj.com
Journal Watch Online
Institute of Physics (UK)

84. Reader Participation
bmj.com
MRS Internet Journal of Nitride
Semiconductor Research

89. Virtual Filing Cabinets
Institute of Physics (UK)
Online Journal Publishing Service
(American Institute of Physics)

94. ENTWINED
• Reference Linking
• Citation Indexing
• Relatedness

95. Reference Linking
CrossRef
HyperCite®

98. Citation Indexing
bmj.com
IDEAL Online Library

103. Relatedness
• IDEAL Online Library
• Science
• Perspectives in Electronic Publishing
(PeP)

113. EXPLORATIVE
• Database Linking
• Demonstration
• Modeling

114. Database Linking
Astrophysical Journal
Blackwell Science / Synergy
IDEAL Online Library

121. Demonstrations
Interactive Multimedia Electronic
Journal of Computer-Enhanced
Education
Development (Company of
Biologists)

126. Modeling
Conservation Ecology
Internet Journal of Chemistry

131. EXPRESSIVE
• Discussion Forums
• Dynamic Articles
• Reactive e-Journals

132. Discussion Forums
McLuhan Studies
MRS Internet Journal of Nitride
Semiconductor Research
Sociological Research Online

136. Dynamic Articles
Cochrane Library
Science's stke: Signal Transduction
Knowledge Environment

140. Reactive e-Journals
Conservation Ecology
Internet Journal of Chemistry
Journal of Interactive Media in
Education

144. EXTRA
• Database Access
• e-Book Access
• Supplemental Data

145. Database Access
bmj.com
MRS Internet Journal of Nitride
Semiconductor Research
ScienceDirecttm

149. e-Book Access
ASAE Technical Library
Springer Verlag LINK

152. Supplemental Data
Internet Archaeology
Science

161. EXTENDED
• Intelligent e-Journals
• Knowledge Bases
• OpenURL Framework

176. Enquire Within Upon Everything
The vision I have … is about anything being connected
with anything. It is a vision that provides us with new
freedom, and allows us to grow faster than we ever
could when we were fettered by the … systems into
which we bound ourselves.
Tim Berners-Lee. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and
Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor. San
Francisco, California: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999, pp. 1-2.

177. DEDICATION

179. SEIZE THE E!
With Apologies to
Saul Bellow

180. ENGROSSING

181. THANK YOU
FOR
YOUR ATTENTION

182. The Static and the Dynamic:
Embedded Multimedia in
Electronic Journals
Technicalities 20(4): 1, 11-14
July/August 2000

183. E is for Everything:
The
Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary
[e-]Journal
The Serials Librarian 43(3/4)
Spring 2002