Some ways electronic publishing will be different

Why electronic publishing means people will pay different prices

The open access movement may be the most prominent aspect of the profound ongoing evolution of scholarly communication, but it is far from the only one. Electronics is loosening the straitjacket of print, but only slowly. Technologies take time to become widely adopted, and sociological change even longer. Most journals are already available electronically, for example, but they remain largely ...

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Dual Spacization Approach to the Electronic Publishing

Dual spacization of publishing means emergence of digital publishing in online and offline virtual environments along with analogue publishing. Analogue publishing is a kind of publishing that is produced in the form of physical printed writings as they appear in a single paper, single or many pages newspapers and magazines and books, writings on leaves and pieces of trees, natural skin and lea...

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

Access to the Electronic Publishing in African Countries: Some Reflections

This text presents a set of reflections about the use of electronic publishing in African countries, as a means of access to scientific information. It includes brief remarks about electronic publishing, their advantages and benefits. The text continues with a discussion about the need to find solutions to the problem of the different degrees of access to scientific and technological informatio...