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
