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Does reading online instead of paper affect your research?

Interesting reading: Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship, by James A. Evans. Science 18 July 2008:Vol. 321. no. 5887, pp. 395 - 399 DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473 "...By drawing researchers through unrelated articles, print browsing and perusal may have facilitated broader comparisons and led researchers into the past. Modern graduate education parallels this shift in publication—shorter in years, more specialized in scope..." See also in the same issue: SOCIOLOGY:Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online, by Jennifer Couzin. "Millions of scholarly articles have migrated online in recent years, making trips to library stacks mostly obsolete. How has this affected research...?"

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