Looking back after 20 years

This is a really interesting (short) article about the development of journals - do try and read it.

"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.
..... It took hundreds of years to develop a finely honed paper journal system. In a mere 20 years, digitally
distributed journals are still evolving and have a long way to go in working out the format, conventions,
and economics that will allow the use of this new media to be as effective and as efficient as the paper
media that they are replacing...."