The Internet revolution is injecting more competition into publishing and giving power back to scientists and learned societies. It presents new challenges to the guardians of the archives and could yet spell the end for many print titles.
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Butler , D. The writing is on the web for science journals in print. Nature 397, 197–198 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/16544
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