Electronic Scholarly Publishing and the World Wide Web

Scholarly publishing on the Internet has evolved in a short period of time from listserv, simple file transfer, and Gopher, to the World Wide Web. An overview of scholarly publishing in the Internet environment underscores similarities and dissimilarities within the various means of electronic delivery, as well as with the print publishing process. Areas of review include production and formatting, notification, access, permanence, location, revision, durability of the medium, design, multi-media, references to source materials, copyright, and citations.