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Simply put, an ejournal is a digital periodical that publishes on the Internet or World Wide Web (WWW). An ejournal (including OJIN) may not be all that different from a print journal in the fundamental editorial process. That is, articles are submitted by individuals in the academic and practice community, are peer reviewed by editorial board members of the journal to be accepted or rejected, and subsequently published. It is the digital medium of presentation that is different. There is no doubt that this different medium of presentation has many implications in terms of cost, page allocations, and interactive communications with readers. The different medium also changes the manner by which the journals are used; the ability to click to an abstract or full text citation for a reference drastically changes the reader. s ability to locate references. These hypertexts within electronic articles have the ability to create a genuine web of information which can take into account the different approaches, sources, and media, and can be hyperlinked together. Such capability changes the journal's perspective, as well as the reader's (Giussani, 1997) As Sparks (1999) states, there is sometimes confusion between "ejournals" and "electronic publishing." Some consider any communication via electronic medium to be electronic publishing . but electronic publishing and ejournals are not synonymous. For example, electronic publishing may be e-mail communication, or listservs, or newsgroup messages. For our purposes, we consider only those ejournals that are peer reviewed and present scholarly articles. We omit the many publications online that are nursing websites and provide useful information about job opportunities, nursing trends, or other health-related information. Those various types of electronic publications and communications are more thoroughly discussed in a later article in this issue by Ludwick and Glazer (2000). Another type of journal that is not an ejournal is the "dual" publication or document delivery. The dual publications are closely modeled after the traditional print paradigm. Murray & Anthony (1999) review several models of current ejournals and refer to the dual publications as "webverts." These are websites that are advertisements for the printed journal. The website provides information about the paper-based journal and allows the reader to purchase articles from the journal, referred to as document delivery. Sometimes there is and sometimes there is not an actual electronic version of the journal. Today, however, it is a sad and lonesome scholarly press that lacks a web site (Regier, 1998 ).
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