[3] D. Knuth. Open Letter to the Journal of Algorithms Editorial Board, October 25, 2003. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/Ëknuth/joalet.pdf. Some Counter Arguments to Aaronson s Arguments Elsevier Publishers Some Comments by Bill Gasarch You may have noticed that the last section is blank. This is not a typo. I invited someone from Elsevier to write a rebuttal, or to write their own review. They said they would but never got around to it. There is a website of intelligent commentary on this issue to be found here: http://www.earlham.edu/peters/fos/ Ë A Review4 of A Century of Scienti c Publishing: A collection of essays Edited by Fredriksson IOS press Review by William Gasarch gasarch@cs.umd.edu Introduction There is a debate going on right now about the future of academic publishing. Some of the questions being raised are as follows. 1. Since authors and referees do all the work for no pay, why are journals so expensive? 2. Should all journals be on-line? If they are, then will people still subscribe to them. 3. Do we need journals in their current form? c 2006, William Gasarch ACM SIGACT News December 2007, vol. 38, no. 4 I thought that a book on the history of Scienti
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