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Does Information Want To Be Free? Responses to a Recent Editorial on Open Access to JCE’s Published Articles Editor’s Note Last November in an editorial titled, “Does Information Want To Be Free”, I asked whether readers wanted this Journal to provide them with the highest possible quality and pointed
out that “high quality information needs to cost something”. Responses that were sent directly to me appear below.
Please Continue To Publish a Print Journal
Bruce C. Winkler
In response to John Moore’s November 2008 editorial (1) I most certainly want to see a print version of J. Chem. Educ. continue into the future. I do not like to read a book online and find it very inconvenient. I can’t hold it or page back and forth readily and look at any graphics in the article if it would only be online and not in print form. It is easy to take along and pull out and read anywhere, anytime. Please continue to push for a print version to be available.
The author is a retired professor of chemistry Department of Chemistry and Physics University of Tampa Tampa, FL 33606
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Literature Cited
http://www.jce.divched.org/Journal/Issues/2009/Sep/abs1029_2.html
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Moore, John W. J. Chem. Educ. 2008, 85, 1467.
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