Printing from the network will yield hardcopy equal to a photocopy or reprint of the article. He also proposes that scientists can subvert the present system by submitting their refereed versions to the same server. In contrast to societies such as American Phytopathological Society and Ecological Society of America that specifically permit the posting of preprints, American Chemical Society and others specifically forbid it.
Many societies have yet to address the issue.
The estimate of 35 cents per MB per year is from data supplied by James Corey, Director of Florida Center for Library Automation. It includes personnel costs and costs of replacing storage and CPU hardware every 4 and 5 years. The estimate of 0.6 MB per article was based on PDF files from the 5 Dec 1997 issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry . Because fewer libraries would have to pay to bind, shelve, and make accessible the back issues of journals, libraries would experience immediate savings from free Web access to back issues. FES's solution to full-text searching is inexpensive and user friendly.