The journal model will evolve toward not a publishing operation but a gatekeeping operation. The journal can be a vehicle for reassuring deans, provosts, promotion and tenure committees, and other gatekeepers in the system that we’ve succeeded in the electronic environment in installing quality controls of the kind we’ve been used to having in the print environment
Predictor: O'Donnell, James J.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Jacques Leslie writes about the movement of bringing scholarly journals to the Internet. He quotes James J. O’Donnell, a journal editor. Leslie writes:”O’Donnell … believes that as electronic journals become well established, ‘the journal model will evolve toward not a publishing operation but a gatekeeping operation’ – that is, the journal’s role will be to single out from the morass of information available on the Net those articles worthy of its imprimatur. ‘The journal can be a vehicle for reassuring deans, provosts, promotion and tenure committees, and other gatekeepers in the system that we’ve succeeded in the electronic environment in installing quality controls of the kind we’ve been used to having in the print environment,’ O’Donnell says.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Publishing
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Goodbye, Gutenberg: Pixilating Peer Review is Revolutionizing Scholarly Journals
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/ejournals_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney