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Not if those young researchers want their stuff to be read (and therefore cited). Trends are, open-access journals are growing in impact.



A wonderful trend people could encourage by making the non-open journals pay for reviews. It'd help the open journals compete.

In there end there shouldn't even be journals, just articles you're pointed to by smart people. Maybe someone would start a ThesisHub for collaboration...

BTW everyone, please release papers in a more useful format than PS/PDF. HTML/CSS is intended to handle device independence and different user needs and would be a better choice. PDFs, which I always read on the computer anyways, are more of a burden than a benefit. In a browser I can run Aardvark or other live editor and make a page readable. With PDF I'm stuck dragging a too-small window over a perfect representation of a useless printed page.




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