Digital distribution of academic journals and its impact on scholarly communication: Looking back
after 20 years :
“It has been approximately 20 years since distributing scholarly journals digitally became feasible. This article discusses the broad implications of the transition to digital distributed scholarship from a historical perspective and focuses on the development of open access (OA) and the various models for funding OA in the context of the roles scholarly journals play in scientific communities.”
URL : http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/apc4/final.pdf