Learning from putting electronic journals on SuperJANET: the SuperJournal project

High speed networks, such as the UK′s SuperJANET, present opportunities for new dissemination. The SuperJournal project in 1993 explored the possibilities with electronic versions of journal articles from nine publishers using four different interfaces. To support user retrieval strategies (hierarchic selection, searching, browsing, network speeds need to be very fast and supported end‐to‐end, more tools for production support for SGML need to be developed, and a move made away from text‐led systems to the more visual. Finally, briefly undertakes a study of the changing role of paper in the context of multimedia systems.