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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?

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.

On the other hand, when certain publications are only available digitally, lacking technological resources or skills will exclude certain audiences

Electronic publishing has provided an opportunity

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?

As a result, current conventional notions of copyright would need to be profoundly rethought.

This fourth model undoes the very idea of a journal as a unidirectional avenue for dissemination of textual information