ONE GIANT LEAP, ONE SMALL STEP - CONTINUING THE MIGRATION TO ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

A NUMBER OF RECENT EVENTS, most notably the emergence of the World Wid e Web, have triggered a dramatic increase in the availability of elect ronic journals. Today's electronic journals make use of the technologi es of the present but are also based on the experiences of the past. T his article discusses the steps that have been taken to reach the poin t where we are today in electronic publishing, including CD-ROM system s, local data loading, and pre-Web online, and outlines some remaining obstacles, including critical mass, aggregation, local collection dev elopment, integration, and archiving, that must be overcome before lib raries can make the ultimate leap from paper to electronic collections .