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            <p><p>The <em>Journal of Electronic Publishing</em> (<em>JEP</em>) is an open access journal that publishes research about contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. Our contributors and readers are scholars, as well as publishers, librarians, journalists, students, technologists, and others with an interest in critically exploring the methods and means of contemporary publishing. </p></p>
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            <h2><em>The Journal of Electronic Publishing</em>: Serving Academic Communities for Thirty Years </h2>
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            <h2><em>The Journal of Electronic Publishing</em>, 30 ans dans la vie des communautés académiques </h2>
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