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The Technologies which underpin Electronic Publishing

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Astronomy as a discipline is essentially online and digital. It thus offers an ideal framework for the examination of current trends in electronic publishing. Electronic publishing is driven on the winds of various underlying technologies. We look at a number of these, focusing on information access and retrieval.

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Murtagh, F. The Technologies which underpin Electronic Publishing. Astrophysics and Space Science 247, 31–40 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000525909446

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