I periodici elettronici in biblioteca: nuova frontiera o terra promessa? Bologna, 28 febbraio 2000

E-journals are a very topical subject, considered - in our framework - with a mix of enthusiasm and concern; on one hand there's the enthusiasm for media and technologies more and more in the van and more and more close to research needs, on the other there's the consciousness that in our country some contexts are still too far from these settings. Among the topics covered at the conference: the existing deviation – at least in our Italian outline – between the materials offered by the market and the objective difficulties that libraries have to cope with; organizing/management problems and cooperative settings of library systems in front of the new reality of electronic journals; the old role of the 'serials librarian' who can and must survive this "electronic revolution", provided that this figure is supported by collaboration, coordination and communication with the whole organization that gravitates around him; the future trends in the publishing market; the peer-reviews problem; the role of the author in the scholarly community. Moreover two Italian experiences were illustrated: CIBER (Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi Dati & Editoria in Rete) and that one by University of Bologna Biomedical Library about the indexing of about 170 e-journals