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How are electronic journals and CD‐ROMs being accepted in Japan?
Author(s) -
Kubota Teruzo
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/095315101300059558
Subject(s) - revenue , computer science , digital library , world wide web , electronic journal , business , library science , free access , accounting , art , literature , poetry
ABSTRACT The market for electronic journals and CD‐ROMs in Japan is analysed. The electronic journal is changing the roles of the main players: publishers, libraries, and agents. Publishers go directly to libraries, while agents are trying to survive as coordinators for libraries to finalize licence agreements. CD‐ROMs are selling as an alternative to books although not all the advantages of their digital format are yet being fully exploited. The time, however, is close when CD‐ROMs will generate revenue by usage through a campus local area network.