SCIENTIFIC-INFORMATION SUPPLY - BUILDING NETWORKED INFORMATION-SYSTEMS

Materials for teaching, learning and research are moving into the digi tal sphere. This move is affecting scholarly communication, teaching a nd learning in the academic community in important ways. These are sig nificant changes, operating at technical, service, organisational and cultural levels. In this paper we wish to examine some of these change s. However, our aims are modest: we will focus on technical developmen ts and on some of the emerging services that these are making possible .