‘In the beginning was the word…’: social and economic factors in scholarly electronic communication

Abstract

I have given this address the title, ‘In the beginning was the word…’, which is not exactly a novel coinage! However, they are words worth remembering, since they draw attention to the primacy of the word in the formation of our understanding (and, indeed, definition) of the world around us. Words still have that primacy, but they can be illuminated by images and moving pictures and by numbers and sounds. Electronic communication now provides the means for integrating words, sounds, numbers and pictures to present ideas and research findings more rapidly and more effectively — and the world is changing.

Citation

Wilson, T. (1995), "‘In the beginning was the word…’: social and economic factors in scholarly electronic communication", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 47 No. 9, pp. 195-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051395