Article by Scott McLemee

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

An entertaining and challenging article by Scott McLemee in 
"Inside Higher Ed" today.

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/01/21/mclemee

An excerpt:

"The system works just fine. Unreadable works are unreadable 
precisely because nobody was ever supposed to read them in the 
first place. Communication is not the point; accumulation is. The 
producer of text accumulates credit for publication, while the 
glory of an ambitious research collection is that it is complete, 
whether or not any given work is used. The beauty of e-publishing 
is that it reduces the amount of physical space required to store 
all the unread material."

Joe Esposito