"In recent years, publishers, librarians and academics have
seized the opportunities offered by the electronic publication
of scholarly journals. Despite the popularity of e-journals,
however, content continues to be published, acquired and
used in physical printed form. In the UK, we are still some way
from a wholly electronic journal environment. This study is
prompted by a concern from publishers and librarians that
the retention of both printed and e-journal formats adds
unnecessary costs throughout the supply chain from publisher
to library to user. In view of the many advantages of electronic
journals, this report sets out to understand the barriers to
a move to e-only provision of scholarly journals in the UK,
and to investigate what various players within the scholarly
communications system could do in order to encourage such
a move."