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Re: Looking for papers etc.
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Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:16:10 -0600
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Tom White wrote:
> 
> Have to a little object to Professors Kibler's implication that an
> ejournal is not real. I fear it's realer than a paper one, because it
> at once comes under the omniverous maw of Google etc. and is
> retrievable at will all over the world, it appears without fee.
> Imagine how long it would have taken me, if all there were today were
> paper journals, to read (note: FREE) Peter Dale Scott's extraordinary
> history poem, "A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11." I just googled for
> "flashpoint Scott" and got 300,000 hits; Peter's poem in flashpoint
> was at the top of the first page. Woweee. Tom White

What is "real" depends to some extent on context. I'm retired and can
afford to agree with Tom here. But I can imagine that for an untenured
assistant professor (perhaps with a couple of kids already) "real" would
mean whatever gave him/her a chance to survive!

Carrol

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