If they get a cheaper price down the road, they'll go. In the past five years, Walters says, the institute has invested millions of dollars to create a technologically advanced operation to manage both the print and online aspects. Walters and her associates say the days of the printed page could be numbered. They want it in print, but some of them are leaning away from that. Everybody wants it online, too, so we've got both.
Abstracts are free.
Those who run the AIP Publishing Center believe that the online journals already are outpacing their print counterparts. That's pretty impressive when there's only 150,000 or 160,000 physicists in the world. We're downloading 500,000 full-text articles a month. That's just an amazing number. Ingoldsby believes the matter of publishing technical information on paper is an equation whose answer will turn out to be zero.