Electronic Publishing: Opportunities and Challenges for Library Professionals

Mohamed Musthafa. K
musthafa.lis@gmail.com
&
Dr. Naushad Ali P.M
naushadali.ls@amu.ac.in

Abstract
This paper discusses the role of libraries in electronic publishing as a recent development and new opportunity to promote the socio-economic development of scholar community. The OSS provides an opportunity to the libraries to play as an electronic publisher in internet era. Methods of electronic publishing such as online publishing, institutional repositories, digital archiving, blogging, web 2.0 application etc. are mentioned. This paper provides details about open source electronic publishing software like, DPubs, GNU Eprint, Hyper Journal and OJS. Some challenges for the electronic publishing to be faced by the library professionals when they move towards electronic publishing such as technology skill, copy right issues and privacy matters are discussed in detail.