Hypermedia Online Publishing: the Transformation of the Scholarly Journal

4.6 Characteristics of electronic documents

An earlier section of this thesis reviewed the characteristics of print documents (see 3.4: Characteristics of print documents on page 49). Electronic documents have a range of defining characteristics that distinguish them from their print counterparts [Schamber, 1996], [Hickey, 1995]. What are their particular strengths and weaknesses?

4.6.1 Strengths

4.6.2 Weaknesses

4.6.3 Archival issues

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