What is a CD Magazine?

Electronic Journal (Electronic Journal), also known as electronic publications, online publications. In a broad sense, any journal that exists in electronic form can be called an electronic journal, covering journals that can be retrieved through online networks and journals that are distributed in CD-ROM. Now electronic journals have entered the fourth generation. Like electronic magazines, Html5 technology is the main carrier independent of the website. An electronic journal is a very good form of media expression. It combines the characteristics of both the graphic and the Internet, and integrates images, text, sound, video, games and other dynamic combinations to present to readers. In addition, there are also super Links, timely interaction and other network elements are a very enjoyable way to read.

Electronic Journals

E-journals, like e-magazines, are at the stage of experimentation, development, and change. Various attempts and ideas have emerged. Although we cannot predict the appearance of e-magazines ten years later, we can make an outlook on the development trend of e-magazines in the short term.

Development and application of electronic journal network technology

The connection between electronic journals and network technology, especially WWW technology, will become increasingly indivisible. The application of constantly updated WWW technology is an inevitable choice for publishers and agents.

E-journals will utilize mature, open, and common standards to enable magazines to be compatible with more viewing and printing tools to the maximum extent.

With the development of network technology, issues such as the standardization of address allocation will be resolved, more alternative electronic journal distribution methods will emerge, and technical constraints such as mirror image distribution methods will become less and less.

The greatly increased network speed has greatly improved the availability of electronic journals and the reliability of data. The declining network communication costs will also bring new opportunities for the expansion of electronic journals.

Internal features and external links of e-journals

The internal characteristics of e-journals will become increasingly abundant. More and more convenient output formats will meet readers' various needs. More and more creative layouts will emerge.

The creative application of various links will be colorful. On the one hand, it allows readers to "sail" within the magazine. On the other hand, it also makes the connotation of electronic journals greatly exceed the magazine itself, and becomes a collection of related knowledge and information that can be infinitely extended. Readers can "go" with the links contained in a journal or article, related articles, journals, works, bibliographic / index databases, WWW sites, and the author's email address.

Electronic journals will recognize and adopt standard universal query interfaces (such as Z39.50), making readers' queries more convenient and transparent.

The role of electronic journal libraries

The issue of maintaining and preserving the back issues of electronic journals will be solved by the cooperation of multiple parties under the condition of mature technology. The maintenance and preservation of back issues will not be borne solely by the publisher or agent. Libraries will play more of their role as custodians and providers of information resources in terms of the publication and maintenance of electronic journals. Not only that, the library's active participation in the distribution of electronic journals will also allow it to have a say in the standardization of the price system of electronic journals, break the publisher's autonomy in price setting, and enable publishers and readers to The relationship has been developing well.