TY - JOUR AB - When academic journals in electronic format were introduced, librarians eagerly anticipated a drop in wildly escalating journal prices. After all, publishers incur no paper costs, no mailing costs, and no significant additional production costs in distributing an electronic equivalent to their paper journals. However, to date, the crisis in rising serial costs has not been alleviated by the availability of electronic journals. Seven years after his first column discussing libraries' struggles with serial prices, the author revisits the topic of electronic journals and summarizes what we have learned about using journals in this format. VL - 17 IS - 2 SN - 0888-045X DO - 10.1108/08880450410536116 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/08880450410536116 AU - Maxymuk John PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Electronic journals redux T2 - The Bottom Line PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 72 EP - 74 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -