[GOAL] Re: Why are we still publishing journals anyways?

2015-04-06 Thread Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)
Heather your question is valid and his been raised and debated in many places. But change does happen, albeit indeed at a very slow pace. Scholars are indeed conservative in their work habit,s and maybe there's even a good side to that. Without elaborating too much I think we may expect to see:

[GOAL] Re: Why are we still publishing journals anyways?

2015-04-05 Thread Gavin Moodie
Thanx very much to Heather for drawing attention to Odlyzko's (1995) paper, which I hadn't seen before. It was most interesting to be returned to the days when all those without access to Mosaic had to do was to write a few commands to get an ftp file sent to them! It was also interesting to