ABSTRACT

It is with this view that this chapter articulates some thoughts on the future of e-journal management and access. Predicting the future of anything is a risky business and I do not have all the answers to the question of what we as a profession can expect in the future for e-journals. The safest predictions one can make is that e-journals will continue to exist and proliferate indefinitely, in some form or another, and that they will continue to preoccupy librarians and information

professionals, take up a huge amount of our limited resources, challenge and stretch us with their constantly changing nature.