--- abstract: 'The ramifications of shifting from paper to electronic serial publication are discussed in light of the recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposal for a comprehensive electronic archive of peer-reviewed and preprint publications. The paper evaluates six concerns that have been expressed about the conversion to a purely electronic journal system and discusses the economic impact and growing tension among authors, publishers and librarians over scholarly publication' altloc: - http://www.med-ed-online.org/f0000016.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Solomon given: David J honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1999-11 date_type: published datestamp: 2002-07-31 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/23/53 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2353 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/2353/1/f0000016.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'electronic publishing, serial pricing crisis, copyright' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:57 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 7 pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Medical Education Online publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: | 1. 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