User: englibrn

Re:No, jobs are defined by publication record

On: Are Academic Journals Obsolete?

Many of them still release paper versions--but nearly all academics access journals online nowadays. The business model has shifted from selling print subscriptions to libraries, to selling online subscriptions to institutions. Any decent journal nowadays is online, and searcheable both from the journal site and due to integration with other search services (e.g. Web of Science). As a librarian I can tell you that Journals most certainly do not market to the institution, I get more promotional crap every week than I want/need. Regardless of the format it is the library that will be paying the big bucks. Roughly 2/3 of most library budgets are spent on journals (and the majority of that on electronic journals). Also, journals have always been indexed. Before Web of Science existed electronically there was Science Scitation Abstracts (same content only in user unfriendly paper volumes). The nice thing about the situation now is that journal vendors are not afraid to sell their indexing to whoever wants it. This has given us several different access points - Web of Science/Scopus or if you can't afford those Google Scholar, Scitation, Scitopia, etc. I think it would be safe to say the initial submitter either hasn't done research in the last 10 years or is an undergrad (or less) who doesn't understand how scholarly publication works.