It has launched seven widely respected electronic journals since its foundation in 2000.

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Many credit Bartitsu's resurgence to Tony Wolf, a New Zealand-born martial-arts instructor who brought together its early supporters by posting archival materials on his website, the Electronic Journals of Martial Arts and Sciences, as far back as 2001.

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In 1995, Stanford founded the HighWire Press, which now provides electronic access to more than a thousand scholarly journals.

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Many new online journals are attempting to do this, using electronic publication to cut their costs.

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