Document management systems are becoming more important as it becomes increasingly obvious that the paperless office is an ideal that may never be achieved. Instead, document management systems strive to create systems that can handle paper and electronic documents together.

Byte magazine article on Electronic Document Management Systems
Byte magazine article (May 1997) explores the sorts of document-management problems faced by businesses and web sites, and compares a number of software packages for solving these.

Document management systems - article
Network notes article (April 1997) on what document management systems are and what they do.