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TY - GEN ID - cogprints1685 UR - http://cogprints.org/1685/ A1 - Harnad, Stevan TI - Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals Y1 - 1999/// N2 - I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind as to what the optimal and inevitable outcome of all this will be: The Give-Away literature will be free at last online, in one global, interlinked virtual library (see ), and its QC/C expenses will be paid for up-front, out of the S/L/P savings. The only question is: When? This piece is written in the hope of wiping the potential smirk off Posterity's face by persuading the academic cavalry, now that they have been led to the waters of self-archiving, that they should just go ahead and drink! AV - public KW - peer-review KW - open archives KW - self-archiving KW - electronic publishing ER -