Online journals are fast. There is no mail delivery lag, and the cycle of publication is therefore a lot shorter. Online journals are a much less expensive option from the point of view of printing and dissemination. They have no paper or ink costs, minimal connectivity costs, and no mail and delivery costs. The implementation of online journals allows creativity, experimentation and innovation along several intriguing lines beyond the obvious concerns of cost, time and distance.
Online journals are freer to incorporate color, animation, audio and video content.
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.