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Originally Posted by frabjous
What field is that? Without multiple columns, I find that just impossible to believe, for any field: professional typesetters know better than that. Unless you just mean that they come prepared to print on 8.5x11 in their PDFs, but again, that can be stripped.
Obviously, it you prefer paper, this is a non-issue, but when it comes to chosing readers, with just a little effort, for someone who wants to read academic articles on a Sony, it's do-able.
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Criminology. I'm sure they can still be converted, but some journals have no columns in the actual Journal (including Criminology the top journal in the field) and then the PDFs they provide for the ejournals sites are just 8.5x11 with no columns.
But like I said, there's probably a work around for them (maybe not for the tables and figures on an 8.5 page with no columns--and the ones that are in landscape on a whole 8.5x11 page) for people so inclined.
Moot for me as I'll always prefer paper for those as it's just easier to highlight, write in the margins, pull out and flip through, compare several finding tables by putting papers side by side etc. We're a long ways off from being able to do that as quickly and easily with electronic gadgets.
I can see it for things that just need to be read--but I don't waste time on those kind of articles. If it's not something directly related to my research that I need to read closely and critically and mark up a ton and write a lot of notes on it's not worth my limited time to read.