As you can probably tell from the logo below, Electronic Journals Ltd. was set up just as the internet was coming into the public consciousness.
As an academic as I then was, the internet had been around for some time and we had got used to using email. Tim Berners-Lee invention of the hyper-text protocol (http), actually created for easy sharing of scientific documents, has put rocket-boosters under electronic communication.
Electronic Journals Ltd. was set up very early in the game in order to publish academic articles online. The lead time for publication of academic articles was a major issue for scientific research, as scientists were often only getting wind of new research a year or more after submiited for publication.
I am enormously proud that Electronic Journals then published Electronic Geology - the world's first entirely online electronic journal for the Earth Sciences. We published two volumes that are now free to access on this site.
The late Dr. Wolfgang Engel of Springer Verlag of Heidelberg, Germany, a very distinguished Earth Scientist and visionary in Earth Science publishing as well as a kindly man it was a pleasure to do business with, saw the potential and then bought and took control of the journal, renaming it Visual Geosciences and publishing it for volume 3 onwards for several years until 2008.
The advent of electronic publishing of all kinds, so ubiquitous today, was an amazing time to be involved in. Things changed so fast it seemed that every day bought an amazing breakthrough, new browser versions, formats and technology. I will forever be grateful for that time and for the support I received, particularly from my many colleagues in Geology who supported the venture in various ways.
Today, I am still involved in geological research, now using the new AI and more established Machine Learning technology to carry on my Geochemical Research.
As a company, Electronic Journals Ltd. left the scene a long time ago, but this website is dedicated to all the people - editors, authors, publishers - who were at one time involved in this exciting venture in one way or another.