Recently, initiatives such as the “Google Books” and “Google Art” project, the Internet Archive “Open Library” and advanced repository systems, have paved the way for novel online reading capabilities and experience, with features such as “page by page” viewing of electronic resources and tile-based image viewing systems, exploiting advanced codecs such as JP2000 and corresponding online viewers. These advances are becoming gradually available in electronic publication systems and, if incorporated in Open Access Journals can contribute to even wider adoption by users and publishers. Such incorporation will enable, apart from intuitive reading capabilities, the efficient viewing of large data sets visualisations, maps and/or images of cultural artifacts.