Influence of Internet upon academic journals



The internet makes influence on each single subject matter of the current world. The journals are not exception on that. The Internet has revolutionized the production of, and access to, academic journals, with their contents available online via services subscribed to by academic libraries. Individual articles are subject-indexed in databases, such as Google Scholar. Currently, there is a movement in higher education encouraging open access, either via self archiving, whereby the author deposits his paper in a repository where it can be searched for and read, or via publishing it in a free open access journal, which does not charge for subscriptions, being either subsidized or financed with author page charges. However, to date, open access has affected science journals more than humanities journals. Commercial publishers are now experimenting with open access models, but are trying to protect their subscription revenues. Many web search engines that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. There are many search engines provide the journals through the internet. The most prominent are: Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic, BASE