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The Internet has so fundamentally changed research and publishing—searching, collaborating, communicating, analysing, authoring, publishing, distributing, sharing and publishing business models—that it is difficult to recall how either process occurred without it. While the scope of change reaches far beyond what this chapter will cover, authors should be aware of some central issues related to electronic publishing. Most of this chapter pertains primarily to journal publishing, but the information on drafting content applies to any form of authoring.
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Winker, M. (2018). Electronic Publishing. In: Sahni, P., Aggarwal, R. (eds) Reporting and Publishing Research in the Biomedical Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7062-4_20
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