Online journals – curse or blessing?

A year ago or so I was perusing the Internet for scholarly or academic blogs, which I found, commented on and then forgot about. Today I stumbled upon an old comment that is a poignant reminder of my post on the Catch 22 of Academic Publishing. It was my comment on the post The Paradox of Online Journals on the blog named The Scholarly Kitchen. The post was referring to a study published in Science Magazine in 2008,  where James Evans, a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, argued that making scholarly articles available online had narrowed citations to more recent and less diverse articles than before – the opposite of what most people expected.

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