Should JSWVE Offer Online Video Interviews with Book Authors?
An online journal offers a number of advantages to print journals, including faster review and publication time, greater accessibility, lower cost, and ability to incorporate media other than print, such as hyperlinks, animation, and video. An online audience also promotes faster and easier communication between the editors, board members, authors and the readership through e-mail, an online forum, and listservs. The openness and speed of electronic communication can be used to create greater inclusiveness in decision making by gathering information from constituencies and promoting evidence-based decision making. Therefore, when one editor of the Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics (JSWVE) proposed the use of video-based interviews with book authors instead of written book reviews, the editors sought input from readers about their support for this idea.
