ABSTRACT
Experience with internet information resources and services suggests the creative destruction of the classical, paper-based process of scientific and scholarly communication, and of the professions and enterprises that realize that process. A modernized, at least partially network-based process is rapidly, if unevenly, becoming established. The characteristics of an emergent, completely network-based 38process is the subject of a growing number of digital library research and development initiatives. These processes are discussed in the context of the transformation, real and imagined, of the value-chain of productive relationships between authors and readers of intellectual works. [Article copies available from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-342-9678.]
