One Giant Leap, One Small Step: Continuing the Migration to Electronic Journals
John H. Barnes · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1997
A NUMBER OF RECENT EVENTS, most notably the emergence of the World Wide Web, have triggered a dramatic increase in the availability of electronic journals.Today's electronic journals make use of the technologies of the present but are also based on the experiences of the past.This article discusses the steps that have been taken to reach the point where we are today in electronic publishing, including CD-ROM systems, local data loading, and pre-Web online, and outlines some remaining obstacles, including critical mass, aggregation, local collection development, integration, and archiving, that must be overcome before libraries can make the ultimate leap from paper to electronic collections.