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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I look forward to doing that someday with my subscriptions to various magazines... being able to dump boxes of packed magazines, and being able to access those articles at any time, in seconds, would be well worth it.
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In research and academy I believe paper subscriptions to journals are dying, we are seeing them more and more being replaced by some kind of internet access. I now have unlimited access to the historical archives of the most important journals in my field and, although I have paper copies of most of them in a room 15 m away from my office, I am glad I can just download the PDFs with a click.
But with a paper journal you can have a quick glance at the articles, watch the graphs and figures, read the titles and maybe find something interesting unexpectedly. With electronic access you mostly only find what you search, so in a way something is lost...