i recently stumbled across the contents of the journal electronic publishing which was published from january NUMBER through december NUMBER all papers are available online in pdf this was apparently one of the first journals to disseminate in pdf in NUMBER the journal also reprints some of the better papers from the electronic publishing conferences held bi yearly from NUMBER NUMBER epNUMBER epNUMBER epNUMBER epNUMBER URL today s reader might look at the contents and wonder about their relevance since they don t directly discuss the web as an academic i find this journal valuable since the papers are of generally high quality by top researchers and they provide lots of pointers to the evolution of the ideas that led to many web technologies it s one source among many for sifting through the intellectual lineage of electronic publishing technologies rohit and adam might find the following papers especially relevant in the context of their wwwNUMBER evolution of document species paper page description languages development implementation and standardization a l oakley and a c norris URL important papers in the history of document preparation systems basic sources richard k furuta URL excellent overview of sources several of the authors of papers in this journal are now involved in the acm document engineering conference series URL jim 