http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/01/print-vs-web-in-science/ Sat, 18 May 2013 12:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/01/print-vs-web-in-science/#comment-29822 Lucy Stewart Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:07:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=8984#comment-29822 Perhaps this paper got a fresh round of publicity when it went into print because other print media (like, say, USA Today) are set up to watch for things in print copies of journals, rather than web-only releases (unless it's really well-publicised when released online, like the now-infamous arsenic paper.) Or it may seem more "real" if it's in hardcopy, and therefore more likely to be written up. Totally contrary to how scientists work with papers, but it wouldn't surprise me. Perhaps this paper got a fresh round of publicity when it went into print because other print media (like, say, USA Today) are set up to watch for things in print copies of journals, rather than web-only releases (unless it’s really well-publicised when released online, like the now-infamous arsenic paper.) Or it may seem more “real” if it’s in hardcopy, and therefore more likely to be written up. Totally contrary to how scientists work with papers, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

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