That is true, but I also think journal editors will internalize that. And it’s easy to fetishize this stuff – electronic formats die out, so let’s engrave all our journals on stone tablets! – but arguably, any important article exists in 50 versions on the web, and will eventually be preserved, so long as anyone cares about it. At least, that seems to have happened so far.
That is true, but I also think journal editors will internalize that. And it’s easy to fetishize this stuff – electronic formats die out, so let’s engrave all our journals on stone tablets! – but arguably, any important article exists in 50 versions on the web, and will eventually be preserved, so long as anyone cares about it. At least, that seems to have happened so far.