Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!oberon!bloom-beacon!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hplabsz!taylor From: taylor@hplabsz.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: Computer-Based Journals Message-ID: <874@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 20:39:47 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsz.874 Posted: Wed Oct 14 20:39:47 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 02:28:06 EDT References: Sender: taylor@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM Lines: 18 Approved: taylor@hplabs It is my impression that the people who do most of the work for most academic journals do not get paid. Several publishers of specialized journals charge outragous prices for them. This is understandable when you realize that they have to pay typesetters, secretaries, etc. and that their circulation is small, but it still makes it impossible for me to subscribe to the journal. The reviewers and editors are usually professors and get paid in prestige instead of money. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) Thus, it seems like electronic distribution of journals would be ideal, if there were a way to archive them properly. I suppose that libraries could simply print them and bind them themselves, but it would be better to put them on an optical disk of some kind where they could be accessed by computer. People who don't have the necessary equipment to print the journals themselves could simply pay whatever it costs to have some clerical person at the "publishing" university print it and mail it. This should certainly be no more than it costs at present.