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Re: On-line Paleo. Pubs.



>Henry Gee notes...
>
>>... less easy to get people to pay for it (which, in any case,
>>seems somewhat contrary to the spirit of the thing).

>Norm MacLeod notes...

>...who wants a copy could just download it. What other costs would there be?
>So far as paying for on on-line journal, so long as it's done on a small scale
>and doesn't take up much disk space I don't immediately see any need for
>anyone to pay for it.

Why people should pay for? Because on-line journals will be free of charge
and consequently a direct concurrence with commercial and non-commercial
scientific journals.

However the main problem is the copytight and intellectual protection of an
on-line paper. Is there a solution for?

Cordialement
Christian


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