While newspapers are not quite in the purview of this Directory , it is nonetheless of interest to know that they are being ported to the net in large numbers. Again, the growth of refereed journals on the Internet has jumped. While some might complain that the movement to electronic journals is not fast enough, this journals growth is remarkable and certainly hopeful, in that most of the refereed titles are easily accessible and the articles in them are available for wide copying and dissemination. The latest prognosis for journal prices for 1996 is once again grim. Critical mass on the Internet.
Experiments continue to proliferate.
Six publishers indicated that they are working on in-house prototypes. The downside of the publishers' experimentation continues to be that the experiments are limited in critical ways. Thus, many of the current experiments, while offering some value, do not advance the interests of the user as fully as possible via electronic networked delivery. The Web comes into its own. Preprints , Working Documents, Technical Papers, and Works in Progress.