I    INTRODUCTION 
Title: 
Lessons from the Open Journal project: from first concepts towards real applications 
Plan of this talk 
II   OPEN JOURNAL PROJECT 
What we said originally about the Open Journal project 
What we also said (more ambitiously) about the Open Journal project 
The Open Journal approach 
Open Journal demonstrators 
Open Journal link features 
Open Journal linking: what has worked; what requires more work 
Open Journals: the user view 
Could we have produced better Open Journals? 
Future of the Open Journal project 
Future of the Open Journal concept 
III  MAKING THE MOST OF E-JOURNALS 
Making the most of e-journals E-journal numbers 
What others say about links: The journal publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing 
What others say about links: The journal publisher: Elsevier 
What others say about links: The database publisher: ISI 
What others say about links: The Academic (an economist) 
Why are links important? 
Links: direct access to information 
Traditional journal values and e-journals  
Journals: blending traditional and new 
The solution is......... Non-exclusivity 
Academic authors and retained rights: some progress 
IV   CONCLUSION 
Conclusion: four steps towards optimum e-journals 
Open Journal publishers 
Open Journal research credits 
 
POSTSCRIPT (added 15 December 1998)