Digital publishing in the faculties of arts and humanities:prospects,chances,and risks

摘要

As access to the internet has become absolutely common and data throughput has increased enormously by new transmission techniques,online accessible texts have more and more become an alternative to scientific publishing in books,anthologies,and journals.Texts that are openly accessible in online journals,forums for discussions,on university servers or on the personal homepage of a scientist are immediately available to everybody.Publishers and libraries that traditionally have played the central part in organizing the communication of the scientific community are principally open to this change-however,to a very differing extent;they supply their specific competences to related processes,whereas their influence on availability and usage of scientific texts decreases.