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