Scholarly Electronic Publishing on the Internet, the NREN, and the NII: Charting Possible Futures

Bailey Jr., Charles W. (1994) Scholarly Electronic Publishing on the Internet, the NREN, and the NII: Charting Possible Futures. Serials Review 20(3):pp. 7-16.

Abstract

This paper examines how scholarly electronic publishing could be conducted on the Internet, the National Research and Education Network (NREN), and the National Information Infrastructure (NII); and it reviews existing proposals for change. It does not consider how the broader electronic publishing industry should be structured to distribute general interest magazines, popular fiction, or other nonscholarly material. Nor does it assume that print-based scholarly publishing efforts will disappear or radically diminish in the near-term future. Rather, it envisions network-based electronic publishing as initially augmenting conventional publishing efforts and then gradually displacing them.