There are no extra costs to including a picture, no constraints on using a recording, no length limitations, etc. Consequently, the editor of an online journal is much freer in addressing a broader range of the readers senses. Use of Communication Resources in a Networked Collaborative Design Environment by Geri Gay and Marc Lentini . Bibliographies are no longer dead letters , they actually point to something useful, that is immediately accessible. You can leap back and forth between literature references and content.
Articles can, and do, involve each other as well as external content.
The whole world is linked in an interwoven net, or web of mutual pointers. Scientific writing, like other communication, becomes more intertwined. Examples for this abound in the journal. The Elasticity of Synchronicity refers to the fact that the internet is a medium without a local time zone, and with little allegiance to time constraints. As a result the sun never sets on electronic journals.