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المقدمةيوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
After many centuries of slow development, publishing industry witnesses a remarkable change, some describe it as a revolutionary one. from traditional printed papers to electronic products and services and from electronic journals to electronic packages sent to libraries and individuals through different networks especially the global Internet which is considered the backbone of contemporary publishing technology.
This study aims to explore the definitions, kinds, international statistics of electronic journals, their resources, advantages and disadvantages, the issues related to them, steps of publishing and future perspectives in Egypt and the world at large. It aims also to analyze the developing plans for science journals in Egypt and how to transform them to electronic form in order to get maximum benefit from electronic progress.
The researcher reached several important findings in this thesis. The most important of them are the serious difficulties represented by the delay of publishing with its consequences of delay of promotions as well as reaching obsolescence stage. Electronic versions may be one appropriate solution. NIDOC and Scientific Societies were supported and financed by the Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology to carry out the project successfully.
The second important finding is that related to international statistics from (110) electronic journals in 1991 to (11128) in 2001.
One important recommendation concerning the Egyptian electronic journals is to publish them directly into the electronic version and not to go through the traditional printed version.
The second recommendation is to concentrate and direct electronic publishing towards production especially in industry and value added projects (e.g. programming).
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The last important recommendation concerns the curriculum of library and information science, which must include courses, related to electronic publishing and how to use the Internet efficiently