ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES FOR INFORMATION PROVISION IN NIGERIAN LIBRARIES
ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES FOR INFORMATION PROVISION IN NIGERIAN LIBRARIES
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Date
2006
Authors
NDAKOTSU, CAROLINE, N.
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ZARIA JOURNAL OF LIBRARIANSHIP
Abstract
Information technology has opened many channels of not only information retrieval and
transmission but also of information generation, When the computer was introduced into
the printing process, the possibility of electronic publishing was no longer a pipe dream.
''his paper examines the idea and concept of electronic publishing and its
revolutionary impact on information generation and dissemination. It also looks at the
controversial side of it publishers scepticism to it especially in the area of piracy and
copyright and its merits and challenge to the Nigerian academic.
The paper agrees that like every other technological innovation the electronic
publishing has it own problems though,its advantages far outweight its problems the
academic community in Nigeria or elsewhere stands to gain a lot if they can overcome
the Infrastructural problems that generally stand in the way of technological
advancement.
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Keywords
ELECTRONIC,, PUBLISHING,, PROSPECTS,, CHALLENGES,, INFORMATION,, PROVISION,, LIBRARIE,