Improving the quality of online journals: Follow-up study of Elsevier's backfiles image rescanning project
- 作者：Lura E. Joseph luraj@illinois.edu
- 关键词：Electronic periodicals ; Image quality ; Backfiles ; Elsevier Science ; Scholarly publications
- 刊名：Library Collections ; Acquisitions ; and Technical Services
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：87_14649055
- 类别：soc
- 出版时间：2012
- 卷：36
- 期：1-2
- 页码：18-23
- 文件大小：497 K
摘要
A previous study by the author of 35 titles in Elsevier's Earth and Planetary Sciences digital back file package revealed that 73.6%of the 6,038 issues published before digital format was available had at least one figure with unacceptable quality. During 2006-2009 Elsevier conducted a rescanning project to improve the quality of the images in their backfile packages for issues published prior to 1995. The author conducted a follow-up study to determine the effectiveness of Elsevier's rescanning project. Although the project corrected many problems, a noticeable number of line drawings are still unacceptable, as well as images in issues published during the 1995-1998 time period.