The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization

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Unfinished Business: Thoughts on the Past, Present, Future, and Nurturing of Homo Scribens

“…These are the legacies of the print world, most of which continue to be valued (even if transformed) in our contemporary era, although they may be placed under stress by new possibilities and values enabled by technological changes. In the academic world this continuity may be most visibly seen in the continuing popularity of the pdf article as the main method of academic knowledge contribution and distribution (Owen, 2007), though pdfs may now embed more graphics, links, and other digital objects. This continuity in the face of so many new possibilities for production, form, and distribution suggests these continuing practices serve ongoing needs and structures of academic life and are not simply the nostalgic artifacts loved by dinosaurs like me.…”