RE: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

["Pikas, Christina K." <Christina.Pikas@jhuapl.edu>]

It seems that this is more indicative of a journal-as-database 
model than journal as a curated collection of works on a specific 
topic. The other large journals - like the Phys Revs - aren't 
really good for scanning/browsing, either. Overlay virtual 
journals and filtering through subject or citation alerts are two 
ways to do this. Some prefer to drink from the firehose, browsing 
all of the additions to ArXiv over the last 24 hours (if I 
remember correctly) or browsing all the additions to PLoS ONE. 
Many might look for post-publication filtering through social 
tools.

Christina Pikas

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Subject: RE: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

Conventional wisdom has it that above a certain size, a journal
becomes unusable for its readers.  Obviously this is true in the
print world, and presumably browsing PLoS One is impossible - but
does that matter in the digital age, or not?  I'd be very
interested in people's views

Sally Morris
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