RE: Yes, it's time (RE: Is it time to stop printing journals?)

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> A rather delayed response to this thread, which I found very 
> interesting. It has been leading me to puzzle out why the 
> consumer magazine market has not gone in the same direction (at 
> least it has not gone there yet

I think it's because consumer magazines are mostly read for 
pleasure -- more like books. Scholarly journals (at least in 
libraries) are mostly used as big bags of articles that most 
users want to interrogate by using search engines rather than 
read from cover to cover. Individual researchers may have 
particular scholarly journals that they read the way other people 
read Rolling Stone or Newsweek, but I think the vast majority of 
usage is of a kind for which online access makes much more sense.

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
Univ. of Nevaa, Reno Libraries
rickand@unr.edu