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Measuring
the Quality of Electronic Journals pp133-142
Maricela López-Ornelas, Graciela Cordero-Arroyo and Eduardo
Backhoff-Escudero
Autonomous University of Baja California, México
ornelas@uabc.mx,
gcordero@uabc.mx,
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Abstract:
This
paper presents the methodology developed to create a system to evaluate
academic electronic journals. This methodology was developed in two
stages. In the first stage, a system to evaluate electronic journals was
created. The criteria framework and the indicators for assessment for
academic electronic journals were selected and defined. According to
this framework, several questions were designed to measure each
indicator and, as a result, an instrument to evaluate academic
electronic journals was built. In the second stage, this instrument was
validated by 16 editors of electronic journals of different countries
and different areas of knowledge that were considered as judges to
evaluate clarity, importance, relevance and coverage of each question,
indicator and criteria. This instrument was distributed by e-mail. The
opinions given by the judges were processed and then used to help in the
construction of a new instrument that is ready to be presented to the
Mexican Council of Scientific Research in order to evaluate Mexican
academic electronic journals.
Keywords:
Key words: electronic journals, journals quality indicators, journals
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