Abstract

In general, researchers submit their research products to scholarly journals in order to be recognized by their colleagues, and, as a result, those are accumulated in their belonged learned societies. However, it is a fact that the majority of learned societies have been ignored digitized information flow even though they could acquire original word files. Information flow process needs to be systematized based on digital for the research products. The purpose of this study is to develop electronic journal generation system for scholarly journals issued at learned societies in Korea. From this study, it would be possible to deliver researcher’s work directly to end users via internet, without acquisition of printed scholarly journals. For this study, KISTI’s article contribution and electronic journal generation system was discussed. It also compared with other major electronic journal publication models in foreign countries.