Of course, the BIG question is will schools, especially t&p committees and merit pay chairs/deans, etc., treat on-line journals with the same consideration as paper journals?  Clearly, acceptance rates, review processes, etc will have to be available for review.  But, is there a strong bias out there against electronic journals?

Dan

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Folks-

The ALSB's on line International Business Law Journal (IBLJ) has been taking
email submissions for over two years (more are welcome!). We've done the
masking that Fran advises by having the editor  delete identifying
information when sending the "MS" on to reviewers.

Don Mayer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fran Zollers" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: electronic journal submission


> Dan raises a good point, but there would still have to be some printing
out
> somewhere (or somehow masking identity) before mailing on to reviewers.
> Otherwise it would be possible to identify the author from the email
address,
> thus vitiating an important quality the ABLJ has going for it--double
blind
> peer review.
>
> Fran Zollers
>
>
> Daniel Warner wrote:
>
> > Hi Colleagues:
> >
> > Independent of the issue of the journals being on line, what about
> > electronic submission for the ABLJ and the JLSE?  That is accomplished
by
> > attaching the file to an email, of course.  Electronic submission saves
a
> > lot of paper, postage, and time, at least at the submitter's end.
> >
> > Obviously at some juncture a reviewer needs to print the thing out.
> > Overall, I would think the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. There i
a
> > web site you may be familiar with that lists all the journals that
accept
> > electronic submissions: http://www.nku.edu/~chase/libesubmission.html .
> >
> > Dan Warner
> >
> > Prof. Daniel M. Warner
> > Dept. of Acct.  (Business Legal Studies)
> > MS 9071, Western Washington University
> > 516 High St.
> > Bellingham, WA 98225
> > voice: (360) 650-3390
> > fax: (360) 650-4844
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