September 25, 1998

Print Journals: Too Expensive, Too Slow, and Obsolete in the Electronic Age?

To the Editor:

The high cost of disseminating information in the form of printed journal articles is related to our insistence on sustaining the obsolete model of printing papers in journals ("Paying by the Article: Libraries Test a New Model for Scholarly Journals," August 14). The journal was developed using the technology of its time to deliver a package of related, but self-contained, studies to scholars

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