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Electronic Publishing in Geotechnical Engineering
Mete Oner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
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Electronic Publishing in Geotechnical Engineering
Mete Oner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
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ABSTRACT
The publication in the last twelve months of The Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering has been a witness to a doubling of activity of research and development in the area of geotechnical engineering: articles/papers were contributed just to EJGE from twenty-five countries. In this one year, the web "traffic" that EJGE generated doubled and then doubled again (quadrapuled) such that the main server in California got "jammed" a few times, and we had to double the Internet "bandwidth" twice in one year! In order to keep the worldwide EJGE readership free, we have been charging the authors. But there has been no price increase, and no reader subscription fees are charged at all. We have no plans to make any changes to that in 2009.
We the geotechnical engineers have invented the electronic publishing: EJGE is the first of its kind in the world. There are now hundreds of websites that call themselves an electronic journal, but EJGE remains a class of its own: it is not only a peer-reviewed journal, it is also a peer-controlled, peer-edited, and peer-published journal. No other journal in the world is so distinguished.
Keywords: Electronic publishing, journals, geotechnical, geotechnical engineering
Note: this is an initial, partial draft of this Status Report; revisions should be expected
The 25 countries represented in 2008 so far are listed here. This is a record for just one year. This is Volume/year 13 of EJGE---lucky 13. There has been contributions (articles/papers) from many other countries in the previous twelve years. We have some of those contributing countries come back is Vol. 13, but unfortunately some others have "dropped out" a total of 14 countries, to be exact. Most of the papers that EJGE publishes are voluntary contributions, with the exception of a few; in 2008 we only have the Bouquet 08 special volume where all papers are invited.
The 14 countries that we missed in 2008 are listed here.
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