Extensive Communication and the Format of the Online Scientific Journal

The scientific journal, or ‘journal’, has been greatly affected by the advent of its online digital accessibility, which brought changes to the historical practices of its printed format. The journal is the priority publication medium for scientific communication, one of the document categories where changes in the electronic format uncover an extensive action, different from traditional practices. The extensive communication -- a.k.a. the emblematic model of network interactions -- comes as much in new forms of document production, as well as in the organization of the technical landscape in which scientific information adapts to flexible and unstable forms. The portal offers access to the complete text of a lot of publication, encyclopedias, databases, etc., supplied by editors and international distributors. In all the platforms we can find specific search tools that make possible bibliographical researches, alert services and other products and services, as well as information of technical and scientific interest