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Five thousand years ago, with the invention of writting, the human species took its first jump towards a technological civilization. The second one came only in the last half of hte XV century, with the invention of press, by Gutenberg. The possibility of reproducing thousands of identical copies of the same document has taken to the creation of the first magazines and journals, a revolutionary concept. But this ocurred in a slow and gradative way: the first scientific journal pressed, for example, was released just in 1665, 200 years after. Although, until today this is the basis of a huge system of divulgation in science and technology, counting more than 300 thousand journals around the world, and that has changed little during the three last centuries.

Nowadays, this scenario is about to change radically, with the development of global computer networks, like Internet, mainly after the explosion of WWW (World Wide Web), that allows for high quality electronic publishing,......

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