Conference Name:International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO 2011)
This paper presents the preliminary results of
a survey conducted by the National Documentation
Centre/NHRF in the fall of 2010 among specialists in
Byzantine Studies. The survey sought to assess needs
and satisfaction with the electronic version of the
journal ‘Byzantina Symmeikta’ and to assess scholarly
attitudes about and practices in publishing in e-journals
and open access journals among scholars in Byzantine
Studies. The paper focuses on the latter part. Survey
result suggest that scholars in Byzantine Studies
increasingly rely on e-journals to carry out their
research, they are predominantly positively disposed
towards electronic publishing and open access, but most
of them have not published in an electronic journal.
Use of e-journals, experience with publishing in ejournals
and open access journals and positive attitudes
toward the above are especially high among younger
scholars.