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<DIV>Randy has written: </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face=Calibri><<</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.>> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Commenting the students’ comment: ‘Poor students!’ Throwing away a century
long tradition is never a good thing. <BR><FONT
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<DIV><FONT style="COLOR: #5856d6"><FONT color=#000000>Quoting again Randy:
<<</FONT><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman"> it is us more
established folks who can help move things in a better direction: as we are not
in the promotion and tenure 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 >>, <FONT face=Calibri>printed books
and journals included...</FONT></FONT><BR></DIV>
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color=#000000></FONT><BR><FONT color=#000000>Paolo (please, don’t think
that I’m a ‘laudator temporis acti’!<IMG
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Prof.Paolo
Ramat<BR>Università di Pavia (retired)<BR>Istituto Universitario di Studi
Superiori (IUSS Pavia, retired)<BR>Societas Linguist. Europ., Honorary
Member<BR><BR>Piazzetta Arduino 11<BR>I – 27100 Pavia<BR>##39 347 044 98 44
(port.)<BR>##39 0382 27 0 27 (home)</DIV>
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