Most of the articles in our paper journals, which we carefully
conserve, are read only once or twice, and cited less. The ease of
publishing one's half-baked results electronically may mean even more
items have to be stored, but no longer on paper, but they will remain
largely unread in the new medium.
The articles in e-journals which correspond to well-read and
frequently cited papers in print journals will, I suppose, be
downloaded and stored and often *printed at the
scientist/engineer/scholars' desktop. Shouldn't these papers be
creamed off for local storage - or even form the basis for a printed
journal, comprising the papers-most-worth-keeping? Thus segregated by
"use" and "medium" from the dross silting up the elctronic arhives.
Adrian Smith
Edward Boyle Library
University of Leeds
Leeds, England
tel +44 113 233 5531 Leeds dialling code is 0113
fax +44 113 233 5539 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library.html
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