Net Writing New Chapter for Science Journals

by Andrew Kantor USATODAY.com, 23 Mar 2006 While the Internet is certainly affecting how the mainstream media works, there's another area that the anyone's-a-publisher paradigm is affecting: the world of scientific journals. The American Chemical Society just laid off a bunch of people who put its journals together, outsourcing the operation to the company that prints them. The move is indicative of the pressure scientific organizations are feeling as a new generation of scientists enter the lab having grown up in an Internet world. Read more