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