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Making sense of journal publishing

Nature volume 299, pages 491–492 (1982)Cite this article

With cut-backs in library budgets it is hard to understand why new journals continue to appear. Here Robert Campbell discusses the economics of journal publishing and the prognosis for this part of the scientific literature.

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Campbell, R. Making sense of journal publishing. Nature 299, 491–492 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/299491a0

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