From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 19:32:34 -0700 Jean-Claude, thanks for this, but we would then be remiss not to mention *Surfaces*, another pioneer journal, edited by one J.-C. Guédon and, alas alas, the late Bill Readings. And thank you for making me think of him, because it will send me back to his excellent book, *The University in Ruins*, which I suspect has even more relevance today than when published 25+ years ago. Jim O'Donnell ASU On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 2:30 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: "Jean-Claude Guédon" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 12:40:25 -0400 > > I see that Jim has responded faster than I on this issue. Jim was > among the earliest producers of electronic journals, as was Stevan > Harnad. If you search Google with the words Strangelove, and > "electronic journals", you will find interesting results, some even > including the name of Ann Okerson. > > Check https://www.strangelove.com/the-directory-of-electronic-jour > nals-newsletters-and-academic-discussion-lists-1991/ > > Best, > > Jean-Claude Guédon > > > > From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 16:32:14 -0700 > > As it happens, you come to exactly the right place with this question. > In the earliest 1990s, when the complete number of e-journals was > tiny, our distinguished listowner on Liblicense-L, Ann Okerson, then > at the Association of Research Libraries, published in five > almost-annual editions the complete catalog of such things: the last > from her hand was *Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and > Academic Discussion Lists*, 5th ed. (1995): Foreword by Ann Okerson, > but the first was from 1991 and reviewed in the Library Quarterly > 62(1992) 250 (online at: > https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/602462). > > (There were probably two additional issues of the directory published > by ARL after she left, but at some point the explosion of such > publications made it impossible to sustain the cataloging of them > without a substantial staff.) > > My particular reason for remembering so clearly may be that I was > co-founder and am still co-publisher of *Bryn Mawr Classical Review* > (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu), the second oldest (and now oldest open > access) online journal in the humanities, from November of 1990, at > about the moment that, unbeknownst, Okerson was bringing together a > meeting of a dozen or so folks who at that moment constituted the > entire known universe of e-journal publishers. She tracked me down > not long after and introduced me to others in the field. > > Times have changed. > > Jim O'Donnell > Arizona State University > > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 3:52 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: RAPPAZ Francois <[log in to unmask]> > > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:27:47 +0000 > > > > Dear all, > > > > I would like to know the growth of online scholarly journals before year > > 2000… Which where the first to go on the web, in what year … > > > > Does anyone know a site or a paper giving this time line from the early > > years of the Web until the end of the 20. Century ? > > > > Thanks for any information > > > > François >