He financed the journal and was permitted to profit from it, but this never happened. Without ethical codes or copyright laws complaints about theft of ideas and discoveries were frequent. Distribution of Science can be realised through publications, schools, and congresses, facilitated visits of young scientist to host institutions and others. For instance, royalties obtained from scientific journals are currently reinvested in supporting advanced schools, congresses and fellowships. However a searchable repository does not necessarily have to be physically located in a given place but can have a virtual location established through appropriate links.
Mirror sites are also an example of non-perceived delocalisation.
It is not possible nor desirable to eliminate existing journals, but in the free-market dynamic of most of our societies, new forms of purely electronic journals are welcomed. This information is public and accessible, through the well-known search engines. The peer review system is still the only guarantee of an attempt of quality control. By operating through filters of different rigor, high to low quality journals are created, representing per se never absolute but always important information for the scientist. The existence of multiple and competing journals should not be abandoned.