Abstract: A system for electronically reconstituting an issue of an electronic publication to simulate its paper analog. The system includes an application web server programmed to collect metadata related to a plurality of electronic publication. A user's viewing device is programmed to receive table of contents metadata for a plurality of the electronic publication, a plurality of issues of the electronic publication, and a plurality of articles for the issues. An input device on the user's viewing device is provided to identify from the table of contents metadata a selected electronic publication, a selected issue from the selected publication, and a selected article from the selected issue. A digital object identifier resolver is programmed to identify a URL for the selected article. A display device on the user's viewing device displays a full text version of the selected article.