electronic publishing, AGRICOLA IND 92047815; Presented at IAALD Symposium on "Advances in Information Technology", September, 1991, Beltsville, MD, This paper reviews the current trends of journal publishing and the costs associated with it. The current electronic journal is described: who is creating; who is distributing and where it is going. Current publishers of electronic journals include commercial publishers such as Elsevier; universities such as Cornell and Carnegie Mellon; scientific societies such as the American Chemical Society and the American mathematical Society. The paper concludes with speculation on what is to come by the year 2000. (original)
