The Changing Shape of the Electronic Journal

摘要: In ten years--perhaps fewer--you may be reading articles like this one on your computer screen, rather than paper, as journal publication becomes an increasingly computerized procedure and the electronic comes into its own. A true is defined that exists in format only, a "parallel" version of print journal. These journals are generally available through major telecommunications networks, likeBitnet, Internet, UseNet. review information technology literature yields profusion contradictory predictions about journal: it will both reduce proliferation superfluous scholarly expand opportunities for scholars to publish more, faster, with fewer restrictions; offset high cost up-front subscriptions fees encumber library budgets necessity purchase machinery online time capture articles; open up untold new avenues access create underclass impoverished. The start debate status typically traced F.W. Lancaster's 1978 treatise, Toward Paperless Information Systems.1 Building premise moving towards publication, some early experiments publishing developed. One such project, undertaken late 1970s, was New Jersey Institute Technology's EIES (Electronic