Nursing e-journals: are current models using the web's potential?
As the number of nursing and health-related electronic journals (e-journals) available on the World Wide Web increases, we are seeing an increasing diversity of models. A taxonomy of current nursing e-journal models is presented, together with brief discussion of some of the issues pertinent to the development of e-journals, and that currently appear to constrain the electronic publication of high quality content. We describe in detail the model and usage of one particular e-journal, Nursing Standard Online. We conclude by advocating the development of innovative and increasingly interactive nursing e-journals as the way forward, discussing one particular model which holds promise. We believe it likely that nursing e-journals using current models will need to be specialist rather than generalist if they are to attract a larger audience.
Murray
P J
PJ
School of Health & Social Welfare, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. p.j.murray@open.ac.uk
Anthony
D M
DM
D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data