Document Supply in a Changing World

Abstract

Discusses the influence of technology on document supply. Traces the move from a paper‐biased to an electronic‐biased world using The Wall Street Journal to illustrate the variety of delivery options that technology has made possible. Examines two rapidly evolving document delivery phenomena – electronic bulletin boards and Internet. Presents a model of the information world in which the demise of some of the players is predicted and, as evidence concludes with a recent innovation, to archive and distribute physics papers, which transforms document supply.

Citation

Montgomery, M.J. (1993), "Document Supply in a Changing World", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 21 No. 4, pp. 24-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/02641619310154719