Impact Of Electronic Publishing Research Articles

Possible impact of electronic publishing on abstracting and indexing

AbstractThe following discussion is based upon the assumption that in the future, a substantial portion of scholarly material will be published only‐or at least primarily‐in electronic form. I will not attempt to predict a date or estimate the proportion, but electronic publishing of scholarly articles will certainly become significant in the not‐to‐distant future. When it does, there will be some interesting ramifications, which I have not seen discussed previously. It is to these I am addressing this discussion.