Nema, Rameshwar(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, February NaN, 2004)
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Abstract:
Electronic Publishing, using Web, is accelerating rapidly and proliferating. Electronic
publication brought revolutionary changes in the field of scientific communication. Scientific
communication is multi-faceted in nature and requires better communication. In accordance,
electronic publishing promise to serve all the adequate services that scientific community
requires to accomplish their goal. Electronic publishing eliminate distribution cost through
electronic communication in all necessary research field like, electronic submission, peer-review
process, final appearance of manuscript, collaborative work, joint work, distribution
of research result. Assuming that electronic journals are less expensive, especially scholarly
journals, offer much lower cost or some journals are freely available on Net. The article
briefly focuses on electronic publishing on Web and how information is being exchanged
among scientific community and impact on library activities.