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Volume :14 Issue : 55 1996
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The Future of Scholarly Electronic Publishing at Kuwait University: Arab Journal for the Humanities as a Case Study
Auther : Nabeel A. Jurdi, Muwaffaq Abdul-Majid
Since the development of the Internet over the last few years many attemps have been made to introduce academic journals in universities around the world. However, there has been no atttemp to set up an electronic journal at Kuwait University. The objective of this study is to offer a proposal for the Arab Journal for the Humanities (AJH) to be the prototype of an academic electronic publishing technology, and the likely pattern and the extent of its diffusion in Kuwait University. The authors then go on to suggest that for the first time the scholarly paper journal at Kuwait University can be supplanted or, at least, supplemented in a significant way by another medium - the internet - and this may lead to a new type of scholarly discourse. The factors investigated relate to networking, access to information, intellectual property and copyright, and managerial aspects. Finally, the paper is intended to stimulate debate and consensus-building among faculty, librarians, university administrators, and scholarly publishers throughout Kuwait University.