Pt.1. Background -- An overview of scientific scholarly journals -- History of traditional and electronic scientific journal publishing -- A system framework for assessing scholarly journal publishing -- Methods -- Pt.2. Scientists' participation -- Scientists as authors, readers, and referees -- Authorship of scientific scholarly articles -- Readership of scientific scholarly journals -- Information-seeking and readership patterns -- Pt.3. Library participation -- Use and economics of libraries -- Use and economics of library-provided scientific scholarly articles -- Pt.4. Publisher participation -- Scientific scholarly journal publishing -- Cost of scientific scholarly journal publishing -- Pricing of scientific scholarly journals -- Financing scholarly journals -- Pt.4. Electronic publishing -- Transformation to electronic publishing -- Economic aspects of the Internet -- Cost of electronic scholarly journal publishing -- Electronic scholarly journal pricing -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index
