PRIMO interviews Chung and Duckett

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Why Journals?

"Why Journals?" is an interesting blog post from folks at RePEc ("a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components") - considering a scholarly publishing world without journals. Thought this brief excerpt regarding libraries was also interesting:

Libraries

It is sometimes said that journals permit journal rankings, and this is a help for librarians for deciding which journal to subscribe to. This is, of course, not an argument for supporting journals. Without journals, there would be no problem of selecting journals, and the librarians could concentrate on selecting books.

So I conclude that libraries would perform better if we had no journals.

The full post is here: http://blog.repec.org/2009/12/16/why-journals

RIS Book Kringle 2009

Paris to the Moon - Adam Gopnik contributed by Rob

Complications - Atul Gawande contributed by Cindy

Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec contributed by Amy

Wolf Whistle - Lewis Nordan contributed by Sarah

What Is the What - Dave Eggers contributed by Kim

Winter’s Tale - Mark Helprin contributed by Keith

More Stuff on My Cat - Mario Garza contributed by Jason

Dead Cities - Mike Davis contributed by Kawanna

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett contributed by Hyun-Duck

Muji blank book and paper crane contributed by David

Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks contributed by Josh B

Beyond the Observatory - Harlow Shapley contributed by Josh W

Being There - Jerzy Kosinski contributed by Eric

Thanks to SB for fact-checking titles and authors!