The article therefore becomes the focus for discussion, rather than a standalone artifact, and the process of quality control is much more open and transparent. Another of JIME's distinguishing features is its use of Shockwave and Java to support demonstrations or interactive examples embedded within articles. This allows readers to interact with the systems being described and enables the journal to model its own field of application. In some respects h-journals are still inferior to print. But these are clearly soluble problems and technologies exist or are being trialled to overcome them.
Hypermedia is now an integral part of the most innovative online journals.
These innovative features are transforming the scholarly journal in an evolutionary way and at the same time compensating for areas in which online is still inferior to print. The result should be gradual uptake of h-journals among users and an accelerating shift away from print starting very early in this new millennium. Acknowledgements I wish to acknowledge the useful comments of the anonymous reviewers. Their suggestions have improved this paper. Jay David Bolter.