Re: Is The Feel of Paper Immortal?

From: Jim Till <till_at_UHNRES.UTORONTO.CA>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:58:58 -0500

The threads about access, dissemination, peer-review costs
and preservation raise another issue: what about the
future of journals?

There's a comment about this in the Jan. 5 issue of the
electronic version of BMJ (freely accessible, via:
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7328/5 ).

The BMJ: moving on
Richard Smith
BMJ 2002; 324: 5-6

An excerpt:

[rs]> The web has advantages of speed, reach, interactivity,
[rs]> and infinite space, but paper has the advantages of
[rs]> readability, portability, and attractiveness. The
[rs]> future is not "paper or electronic" but "paper and
[rs]> electronic."

Jim Till
University of Toronto
Received on Sun Jan 06 2002 - 13:08:43 GMT

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