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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca!mroussel
  3. From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
  4. Subject: Re: library cutbacks
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul28.184718.24280@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
  6. Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
  7. References: <Jul.14.03.38.05.1992.27933@remus.rutgers.edu> <1992Jul17.212740.16594@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <92210.010238U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>
  8. Distribution: sci
  9. Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:47:18 GMT
  10. Lines: 16
  11.  
  12. In article <92210.010238U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> <U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
  13. >      What's wrong with desktop publishing ? [...]
  14. >this purpose), and some commonly marketed software. One loses a little
  15. >elegance [...]
  16. >but if the other option is to have too few journals, it
  17. >would seem to be an acceptable loss.
  18.  
  19.      I would argue that there are already too many journals out there.
  20. "Publish or perish", as we currently know it, results in volume but not
  21. usually in quality.  The budget crunch which our university libraries
  22. are facing is a good thing as it should result in some of the (intellectually)
  23. poorer journals ceasing publication and in the better journals becoming even
  24. more selective.
  25.  
  26.                 Marc R. Roussel
  27.                                 mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
  28.