Impact of E-Publishing on Scholarly Communication

The use of technology in publishing world has paved a new way to the scholarly communication which has brought a significant change in the global information process. This paradigm shift in e-publishing which is in a full bloom has transformed the nature of scholarly communication. In e-publishing, information dissemination is possible electronically which is cost effective, fast and time saving. Such qualities of e-publishing industry are attracting scholar communities to adopt information technology in their writings. The prompt communication of manuscripts is possible in ICT era. For publishing in scholar journals, manuscripts are peer reviewed at different stages and publisher notifies the author at each stage of reviewing as per the suggestions of the review committee. This process otherwise takes months in conventional methods of publishing.