Ars Technica Reports: American Chemical Society to Switch to Online-Only Publishing for Journals

Posted July 6th, 2009 by Peter Schilling, Amherst College

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In case you missed this in Nature, Ars reports that the ACS will begin online-only publications for most of its journals next year. Ars reports that the publishers realized that it no longer made economic sense to print journals. In addition, from the perspective of students, if the material is not online, it does not exist. Willing to wager how long it will take the rest of the academy to realize the same thing?

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Peter Schilling. "Ars Technica Reports: American Chemical Society to Switch to Online-Only Publishing for Journals." Academic Commons Issue Name (Spring 2008): 12 February 2012. <http://www.academiccommons.org/>.

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