ABSTRACT

Over the past ten to fifteen years, e-journal workflows have matured from the Print Age’s square-peg-in-a-round-hole approach to the sweeping electro-centric e-workflows of today. Although databases, and maybe even a rudimentary e-book, were the first born of the e-family, e-journals are now the most ubiquitous e-resource and virtually (pun intended) no library is without them. Before we talk about Ranganathan’s Seventh Law (“Every reader his e-journal, and maybe even three or four”), let’s revisit his Sixth: “The library is a growing organism, and it cannot grow without its morning coffee.”1