Uma análise de periódicos acadêmicos eletrônicos brasileiros nas áreas de ciências humanas, biológicas e agrárias

Abstract

Previous research has pointed out that the Internet is a context for the production of emerging genres. Some studies suggest that electronic journals are going to substitute printed ones in a near future, while other studies emphasize the optimal role of hypertext as mediator of the reader – text – author interaction in e-journals. Due to the importance of the electronic research article for academic knowledge construction, in this paper, we have tried to determine the configuration of Brazilian e-journals. Our aim is to explain how the electronic medium contributes for new configurations of printed genres. The results show that the electronic medium as site for academic publication is little explored by Brazilian researchers and the use of electronic tools in the papers published in Brazil is still restricted to just some of the these texts. The standardization of electronic academic journals, copyright laws and the democratization of access to information are still controversial points and demand a serious discussion and urgent regulation.