Publishing ECS Content

摘要

In this issue of Interface, Guest Editor Richard McCreery notes that if "one takes an optimistic view of molecular electronics there is support for the idea of a paradigm shift of a scale as large as that from vacuum tubes to transistors that occurred in the 1950s and 1960s." It is appropriate then, in this same issue, to report on a similar shift that is occurring in the field of scholarly publishing and on the challenges ECS faces in publishing its content. The publication paradigm, for professional societies as well as commercial publishers, has changed largely because of the growth of the Internet and allied electronic technologies. The challenge is to find the right sources of information, to distinguish between good information and bad information, and to be able to benefit from the good information once it is found. That is where the scholarly society comes into play.