This summer I took a course on the design of electronic text as one of the final courses in my degree. For our major group assignment, we created an electronic journal in Open Journal Systems, Scroll, where we published our (peer-reviewed) essays. This was a great experience because it allowed us to create something real and practical while considering design issues and learning about OJS, project management, and the peer-review process. On the downside, due to the limited time of the classroom setting and the constraints of OJS, I’m not sure how much of our new knowledge on e-text we were actually able to implement in the journal’s design.
The journal went through several stages and has now been officially released. My essay, Digital reading theory and its relationship to academic reading practices, is included in Scroll.
Also see Heather Morrison’s blog post about the project.
Filed under: Design, Electronic Text, Open Access, Reading
