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Tech Report kmi-01-02 Abstract
JIME: An Interactive Journal for Interactive Media
Techreport ID: kmi-01-02
Date: 2001
Author(s): Simon Buckingham Shum and Tamara Sumner
How can new media positively transform scholarly practices? In this article, we describe the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME: www-jime.open.ac.uk). JIME's peer review process is designed to promote multidisciplinary dialogue through the use of a purpose-designed Web document-discussion interface. This innovative peer review model and the resulting 'enriched' digital documents illustrate some of the possibilities for promoting knowledge construction and preserving intellectual products in digital scholarly publications. We present JIME's technical infrastructure, editorial policy, and peer review process, and discuss how these features are used to support the journal's goals. Finally, we conclude by considering what aspects of our approach might be suitable for eJournals in other disciplines.
Publication(s):
Buckingham Shum, S. and Sumner, T. (2001). JIME: An Interactive Journal for Interactive Media. First Monday, 6, (2), February, 2001
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