In the past several years, the media of scientific information distribution has become marvellously diversified. This trend is best characterized by the following three keywords. Popularization, multimediarization and networking. These also represent the ongoing dramatic changes of the information infrastructure. First, the paper mentions the changes of the infrastructure for scientific information distribution using the above three keywords. Secondly, recent trends are explained on package products, local networking and online services, including progress of scientific publishers and online vendors. Also briefly mentioned are some experiments of electronic libraries. Lastly, the media, users and libraries in the near future are considered.
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