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*Paper contributed to the Annual Seminar on Electronic Sources of Information, 1–3 March 2000, ISI/DRTC, Bangalore 560 059
Several factors have been successfully pushing the conservative science publishers to accept the transition to e-journals. Some of the influancing factors are, the conveniences of web for access& browsing, the economics of Internet for delivery, the digital library revolution etc The paper discusses the technological history of E-journals, access models, archiving, pricing and other several issues.
