E-journals in a networked environment : its impact on academic libraries in the digital millennium

Vijayakumar, J. K. and Vijayakumar, Manju E-journals in a networked environment : its impact on academic libraries in the digital millennium., 2002 . In National Seminar on Library Co-operation in a Networked World, Kozhikode (India), 25-26 May 2001. [Conference paper]

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This paper tries to describe the Advantages of E-journals in terms of Accessibility, Speed distribution and production, Subscription Cost, Multimedia Capabilities, Internal and External Links etc and also tries to find out the Technological, Socio-cultural and Economic Barriers. The issues like Refereeing, Copyright and Licensing, Longevity and Storage and recent trends in E-journal publication and its implication on Academic Libraries in selection and acquisition, Cataloguing, archiving, user's access, training and support to staff and users are discussed in this paper.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: E-Journals management
Subjects: H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
Depositing user: Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar
Date deposited: 19 Feb 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:02
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7216

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