California Agriculture launches E-Edition, allowing faster publication

California Agriculture journal launched its first E-Edition in the July-September 2011 issue, providing an expanded venue for the rapid publication of time-sensitive research. Find the E-Edition articles in the table of contents.

“Initially, E-Edition is being offered to authors who have been waiting for publication due to a backlog brought on by the statewide budget crisis,” says Janet White, California Agriculture’s executive editor.

California Agriculture is the University of California’s journal of peer-reviewed research and news in agriculture, natural resources and human resources. It has been continuously published for 65 years.

E-Edition articles are laid out just like print articles, with tables, figures and photographs. Readers can download and print copies in HTML or PDF format. Authors will be able to print articles on demand for distribution to target audiences.

“Readers of the print journal can preview abstracts and introductory comments of E-Edition articles in the pages of the journal,” White says. “Space permitting, E-Edition articles may be printed in future issues.”

E-Edition also means that, with the July-September 2011 issue, California Agriculture will switch from print to electronic “version of record,” the online version becoming the authoritative version to be indexed by databases and repositories. Like all published articles, E-Edition articles will benefit from California Agriculture’s augmented electronic presence.

The journal is posted in full on the California Digital Library and in the ANR Repository, and it ranks high in Google and Google Scholar searches. It appears in numerous indexes and databases including Thomson ISI (Agriculture, Biology and environmental Sciences, and the SCIE databases), EBSCO, Gale, Elsevier, AGRICOLA, Proquest, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau (CAB) and open-access journal databases.