Changes in Scientific Publishing

• The Magazine of Digital Library Research

• The Journal of Electronic Publishing

Bibliographies

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (a comprenhensive bibliography of works in this area), version 2. See in particular section 7 on New Publishing Models.

Proposals for new scientific communication (publishing) schemes

First publication archives, preprint archives, etc.

• Erik Sandewall: Strategies and Policies of Linköping University Electronic Press

Copyright issues, first publication rights, etc.

• Here is a guide to the online availability policies of IEEE, ACM, and AAAI, which has been prepared for Linköping University E-Press.

On the future of scholarly publication

• Simon Buckingham Shum, Tamara Sumner and Diana Laurillard: On the Future of Journals: Digital Publishing and Argumentation.

• A. Odlyzko: Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals.

• Bernard Hibbitts: Last Writes? Re-assessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace

• Bernard Hibbitts: Yesterday Once More: Skeptics, Scribes and the Demise of Law Reviews.

• Bernard Hibbitts: Electronic Scholarly Publishing in Law: E-Journals, Archives and Knowledge Networks. To appear in First Monday; temporarily posted in a "pre-print" version.

Innovative structures in electronic publications

• William Y. Arms, Christope Blanchi, Edward A. Overly: An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries. The Magazine of Digital Library Research, February, 1997.