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Electronic journals, scholarly communication and libraries
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The recent surge in scientific electronic journals began when libraries began having access to the WWW in the mid-1990s. The shift from paper to digital has affected the traditional alignment and role of the primary "stakeholders" -mainly authors, publishers, universities and libraries. The author offers a brief review of the history of the scholarly journal followed by the evolution of e-journals in during the past two decades. The article then focuses on the implications that these have had on traditional library processes and services such as selection, acquisitions, cataloguing, storage, preservation and user services. In the conclusion the author speculates on the long term effect of Web-based publishing on the format of the traditional scholarly journal as it has existed for over 300 years.
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KEEFER, Alice. Electronic journals, scholarly communication and libraries. BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació. 2001. Vol. junio, num. 6. ISSN 1575-5886. [consulted: 8 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/8967