Electronic Journals: A Short History and Recent Developments

Roes, Hans

International Summer School on the Digital Library / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljis:8423)

Abstract:

This paper, to be presented at the International Summer School on the Digital Library, August 1996 at Tilburg University, is a sequel to and an extension of an article written in 1994 [Roes, 1995] on the subject of electronic journals. It first sets outs to give a very short account of the evolution of electronic journals, clearing some definitional issues in passing. The first section ends with an overview of what is available on the Internet at the time of writing (Spring 1996) of this paper. Next attention is paid to directory services on the Internet which point to existing electronic journals and alerting services for new electronic journals. The following section deals with library experiences with electronic journals, paying specific attention to a recent initiative at Tilburg University Library aiming at an integration of Internet resources in general into the existing library infrastructure. The next section discusses possible consequences for the scholarly communication process in terms of scenarios and key problems in these scenarios. Finally an assessment is given of the current state of development of electronic journals and some tentative conclusions are drawn

Creation: 1996
Keywords: Revistas electrónicas ; Historia

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