This issue covers the broad topic of electronic scholarly publication. Some 25 professionals in 20 libraries, consortia, and publishing enterprises were interviewed for this issue. A section on issues and trends for managers discusses the proliferation of roles and models; assembling the critical mass; licensing, copyright and interlibrary loan; partnerships; acquisition modes; collection management; archiving; publishing through digitization; training; publicizing and interfacing; evaluation; multimedia; staffing issues; and costs and cost models. Innovations at selected academic libraries are described. Topics include an overhaul of a university's consortial collections program as a result of access to electronic resources; electronic partnerships; maintaining electronic resources; digitizing locally-owned materials; the development of a client-centered library service model; license management and collaboration; an expenditure strategy; alternative free distribution model for journals; promotion of electronic resources; digitizing archival photographs; an examination of costs; providing access to fee-based electronic scholarly journals; addressing future storage problems; linking an electronic version of a guide to theory and criticism to scholarly journals; mounting electronic journals to libraries. Contact names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses are provided for each institution profiled. A future outlook for electronic scholarly publication concludes this issue. (AEF)