Too many publications publish and archive only their teasers on the web.
That's the problem.
Hal
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM, bj omanson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Speaking of lost work on the web, I was interested in reading back through
> some earlier issues of the Pennsylvania Review, as I have some work
> appearing there next month, and started clicking on their archived issues,
> expecting to find a complete issue in each case. All I found for each back
> issue was 3 or 4 pages -- usually just a single writer. No table of
> contents for the issue, or contributor's notes, so no way even to see who
> or
> what had been published beyond a single offering per issue. I know the
> Pennsylvania Review has been around for a few decades at least, but is it
> now only electronic, and does each issue largely disappear once its day has
> passed?
>
> I haven't paid a lot of attention to online journals so far --- is this
> sort
> of practice the norm? Do old issues of online publications largely
> dissipate into cyber limbo?
>
> bj
>
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