Open AccessExtending AGU's digital library
Author(s) -
Collins Curtis,
Bougeret JeanLouis,
Costa John,
DeFries Ruth,
Freymueller Jeffrey,
Penner Joyce,
Stein Ross,
Suyehiro Kiyoshi,
Zeng Xubin
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2006eo260008
Subject(s) - digitization , dozen , reading (process) , library science , the internet , publishing , digital library , soviet union , usable , computer science , world wide web , history , political science , media studies , art , telecommunications , law , sociology , literature , politics , arithmetic , mathematics , poetry
AGU has a long and proud history of publishing. The Union's most visible and stalwart publication, the Journal of Geophysical Research ( JGR ), traces its roots to 1896, when the journal Terrestrial Magnetism first appeared. Since then, AGU's publications have come to include more than a dozen journals, books, maps, and the venerable Eos Transactions , which you are reading now. By far, the largest amount of AGU's published output has been in the form of printed media. Print communications have served scholars for centuries, and they remain valuable. However, today's investigators expect to conduct research in the digital environment of the Internet, where material can be more easily found, accessed, and utilized. Consequently, it is common for scholarly publishers these days to convert their older, print content so that it is accessible and usable on the Internet, a process often called ‘retrospective digitization.’ AGU is embarking on such a process.