Physicists in the New Era of Electronic Publishing
AUG 01, 2000
New electronic opportunities for scientific communication, and changes in how scientists use journals, are prompting a complete reevaluation of the roles of scientific journals and of scholarly societies like the APS.
DOI: 10.1063/1.1310119
Some of my colleagues in Santa Barbara—the string theorists, for example, and several of my coworkers in condensed matter theory as well—insist that they don’t need The Physical Review. For research purposes, they don’t need refereed print journals at all. They are producing remarkable results this way, so I take them very seriously.
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James Langer. American Physical Society, University of California, Santa Barbara.
© 2000. American Institute of Physics
