Additional collaborative projects with publishers are needed to determine whether the electronic format is appropriate or desirable for specific titles. Use of the Internet is currently growing astronomically. As faculty familiarity and expertise grow, the demand for electronic scholarly journals and other resources will also increase. The prestige and legitimacy of publishing in electronic journals should develop concurrently. The decade of the 1990s will continue to be an era of experimentation, with research libraries individually and collectively involved in providing local and remote access to electronic journals.
Challenges exist with cost models, text display, standards, preservation, and technological change.
The opportunity to address these challenges, so that scholarship can be created and disseminated in new ways, belongs to the research library.