Conditions for Viable Scholarly Electronic Journals: The Role of Digital Libraries
http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/ISDL97/proceedings/yamamoto.html

Yamamoto, Takeo
ISRDP in Digital Libraries
1997

Abstract:

Three characteristics of hard-copy scholarly journals--visibility, immutability and longevity--which electronic journals might emulate to gain more acceptance and trust of potential authors and readers, are pointed out. The role of digital libraries in helping electronic journals in the emulation is also discussed.