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November 1995
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survey of journal editors in education, little enthusiasm for the idea of creating electronic versions
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changing ideas about what constitutes a publication
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Questions immediately arise: When was this project published? When was it finished? Who deserves credit as author? Who were the reviewers and who were the audience?
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In our view, it is not that electronic publication is a panacea or an obviously superior form of scholarly communication across the board; it is that these technologies are already upon us, they are for better or worse in increasing use, and they confront us with issues and choices we need to reflect upon.
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On the other hand, when certain publications are only available digitally, lacking technological resources or skills will exclude certain audiences
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Electronic publishing has provided an opportunity
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Is it useful to have access to tens of thousands of documents, with no reliable way of culling the few dozen that one could actually have time to read?
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As a result, current conventional notions of copyright would need to be profoundly rethought.
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This fourth model undoes the very idea of a journal as a unidirectional avenue for dissemination of textual information
