Describes how MCB University Press has started to come to terms with the metamorphosis which electronic publishing offers. Sees a future where interactive multimedia products and services are the norm and are quite differently distributed, based on new alliances from within but also from outside the traditional players. Explores how MCB’s strengths might be used to succeed in the new frameworks...

T his special issue surveys electronic publishing technologies interpreted in the broadest possible sense. Electronic publishing, like all publishing, is concerned with the dissemination of information for public sale or use. Recent changes in the supporting hardware base-particularly low-cost workstations and personal computers with reasonable screen resolution of 70-100 dots per inch and lase...

Electronic publishing opportunities, manifested today in a variety of electronic journals and Web-based compendia, have captured the imagination of many scholars. These opportunities have also destabilized norms about the character of legitimate scholarly publishing in some fields. Unfortunately, much of the literature about scholarly e-publishing homogenizes the character of publishing. This a...

ranking is one of the key measures for evaluating universities.  progress of research at universities is often measured by the rate of its publications.  it is also common knowledge in the field of research that journal publications owe their success to their impact factor.  however, one of the contributing factors that affect a journal's impact factor is the accessibility and availability of i...