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Professor Ramat,
<div class="">Mi scusi, colpa mia, I did not intend to rule out printed matter (I prefer them as well), just the sort of arrangement we are in now.</div>
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<div class="">On 5 Jul 2017, at 5:27 PM, Paolo Ramat <<a href="mailto:paoram@unipv.it" class="">paoram@unipv.it</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><<</font>At one point in the discussion I took out a journal issue to refer to an article, and the students commented, “Oh, so that is what a journal is!”. As everything is done
electronically in our university, and there is no display of paper copies of journals in the library, in the four years of their education at the university the students had never seen a paper journal, only pdfs of individual articles.>>
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<div class="">Commenting the students’ comment: ‘Poor students!’ Throwing away a century long tradition is never a good thing.
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rat race and don’t need to worry about publishing metrics and whatnot, we can lead the way to making alternative forms of dissemination viable and respected >>,
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<font class="">Paolo (please, don’t think that I’m a ‘laudator temporis acti’!<span id="cid:CC429400F15E4518B18B2DA3CF701F26@PaoloPC"><wlEmoticon-winkingsmile[1].png></span><span id="cid:42B40EE0B8974CA2803FB678F870B61E@PaoloPC"><wlEmoticon-laughingoutloud[1].png></span></font></div>
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Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS Pavia, retired)<br class="">
Societas Linguist. Europ., Honorary Member<br class="">
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