TY - JOUR AU - JONES, ROGER AB - Family Practice Vol. 10, No. 2 Printed in Great Britain © Oxford University Press 1993 ROGER JONES* AND KAREN HUNTER** The potential for emerging information technologies are incorporated into the database within 24 hours of to replace traditional paper-based journals and to pro- appearance and, by linking the database to a document vide a more effective means of storing, disseminating delivery service, can be faxed to end-users within 24 and retrieving medical publications has been a topic hours. This is done without human intervention; the of considerable interest for many years, but at present credit card number of the user is entered into the the reality falls well short of the predictions. Biblio- system, verified at the bank and the file pulled and graphical searches and abstract retrieval are available downloaded after confirmation of payment. There are in many scientific specialities, but science has proved clearly many reasons for an increasing pressure on particularly resistant to the employment of electronic publishers to provide in an electronic format material full-text publishing. There are many reasons for this, that is currently paper based. not least that the cost of converting traditionally Will electronic publishing make the information published material into electronic TI - Electronic Publishing JF - Family Practice DO - 10.1093/fampra/10.2.102 DA - 1993-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/electronic-publishing-qTkJu71caX SP - 102 EP - 103 VL - 10 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -