Open access and online publishing: A new frontier in nursing?

摘要

From the days when some of us laughed at the prospect of electronic and online publishing as something that was unlikely to 'catch on' we now have the instructive benefit of considerable hindsight to show just how wrong we were. There is now an onslaught of electronic and online reading material and the many ways it is made available: PCs; laptops; tablets; Kindles; mobile phones, iPods and iPads. There is a synergy between the availability of online material and the portable electronic means whereby it can be read. Moreover, there is a remarkable growth in the ways information and publications can be shared, especially through social networking sites, such as Twitter, Facebook and academia.edu.