Electronic Publishing : Impact on Scientific communication

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.