Electronic Publishing in Geotechnical Engineering Status Report 2008

摘要

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.rnWe 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.