I had not read this before.. <br>best, <br>John<br><br><br><dl compact="compact"><dt><a href="http://papers.gersteinlab.org/e-print/paperdeath/preprint.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: black;" name="paperdeath"><font size="+1">
<b>The Death of
the Scientific
Paper</b></font></a></dt><dd>Seringhaus M, Gerstein M (2006). The Scientist. 20(9): 25.</dd><dt><br></dt></dl><a href="http://www.seringhaus.net/writing.html">http://www.seringhaus.net/writing.html</a><br><br>"<br><br>
Forget "publish or perish." Academic publishing<br>must diversify or die.<br><br>Just as PubMed indexes journal abstracts in a<br>structured fashion, we propose cataloging a broad range<br>of material, which would enable users to run PubMedlike
<br>queries over abstracts, full text, data sets, lay<br>summaries, and presentations, all through a single<br>porta<br><br><br>While this highlights the importance of nontraditional<br>communication in science, it is also regrettable: After
<br>all, journal articles are the main output for which<br>scientists earn recognition, and producing them<br>commands a huge share of our efforts. Meanwhile,<br>virtually no credit is afforded to producing quality highlevel
<br>summaries or to online data deposition.<br>Journals must produce more than just papers. Editors<br>should demand online deposit of data as a requirement<br>for publication, and enforce a unified nomenclature for<br>biology. In addition to the traditional manuscript,
<br>The Scientist : The Death of the Scientific Paper Page 2 of 4<br><a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/9/1/25/1/">http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/9/1/25/1/</a> 9/4/2006<br>"<br><br><dl compact="compact"><dt>
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