Digital Dilemmas: electronic challenges for the scientific journal publisher

摘要

Excited by what has now become possible, participants in the creation of the new digital library often overlook fundamental (often implicit) aspects of the paper paradigm that still need to be maintained in the digital universe. In the realm of scholarly and scientific com- munication, the issues of first publication, version control, referencing, stable and immutable archives, as well as strategic issues blurring the distinctions between the in- formation players all have to be reconsidered. These matters are reviewed with an indication of what has and has yet to be achieved.