%A Stevan Harnad
%J Nature
%T On-Line Journals and Financial Fire-Walls
%X The final state toward which the learned journal literature is evolving in the age
                              of networked hypermedia is as inevitable as it is optimal: Sooner or later, the
                              entire corpus will be fully and freely accessible and navigable from the desk of
                              any thinker in the world. The effects of this on the scope and pace of Learned
                              Inquiry itself will be revolutionary, comparable only to the impact of three prior
                              cognitive revolutions: the advent of speech itself, then writing, then print.
                              Learned Inquiry, always communal and cumulative, will not only be
                              immeasurably better informed, new findings percolating through minds and
                              media almost instantaneously, but it will also become incomparably more
                              interactive, with collaborative, creative, critical, and self-corrective cycles
                              accelerable, potentially, almost to the speed of thought
%K electronic publishing, economics, peer review, start-up costs
%P 127-128
%V 395
%D 1998
%L cogprints1699

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