Abstract:

The article introduces four kinds of digital academic publishing patterns abroad，namely the
virtual library, the digital warehouse, the collection of academic essays and the academic community. Each
kind of patterns has its advantages and disadvantages, and is still in a state of development. The experiences
and prospects from their development are as follows: digital academic publishing market mainly concentrated
in universities and colleges rather than individual consumers; digital academic publishing has not decreased
the sales from the print publications; the uncertainty and opacity of the digital content’s copyrights has
influenced the progress of the field seriously; academic journal publishing and academic monograph publishing
have lots of overlap areas and are worthy of development; publisherss’ survival and development depends on
their publications’ values and systematically digitalization.