The Explosion of Electronic Publications

Ejournals clearly are changing the world we live in.

The exponential expansion and diversity over the past five years of ejournals in all disciplines. including nursing. has led to the prediction of the extinction of traditional academic journals; the claim is even made that a new "paradigm" is sweeping scholarship (Valaukas, 1997). Ejournals clearly are changing the world we live in. They are changing what publishers, authors, and readers do, what librarians do, what academicians, and practitioners do. Life for the end user is different in relation to accessing articles and reading articles. Some speculate that a great deal of scholarly communication will move to ejournals (Varian, 1998)