Abstract
It is widely accepted that a great deal of scholarly communication will move to an electronic format. The Internet is helping to push journals from paper to electronic media. In life sciences, the number of electronic journals published by commercial publishers and scholarly societies is not large, but is growing quickly. NIH has proposed a system called PubMed Central (former E-biomed) as a complete restructuring of scientific publishing for the life sciences in the form of “an electronic public library of medicine and other life sciences.” PubMed Central is ready to start by January 2000. If it triumphs, one massive digital library of medical articles will exist as a virtual global library that will eliminate much of the need for local medical library collections. The electronic environment is not a linear extension of the paper environment. The role of the medical library has to change from that of an information repository to that of knowledge management. Medical librarians play an active role in incorporating information acquisition and management, and are skilled “knowledge managers, ” and must be familiar with information technology.
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