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The Dairy Literature Problem

Commonwealth Bureau of Dairy Science and Technology, Shinfleld, Reading, England

ABSTRACT

Kroger (1) has presented a thought-provoking article on the future of handling scientific literature. He is particularly worried about the superabundance of literature and suggests, quite rightly, that scientists nowadays are confronted with an ever-increasing volume of scientific literature most of which, in this age of specialization, is of little or no direct interest to them. His suggested remedy is that scientific journals, such as the Journal of Dairy Science, should print summaries only of the papers submitted but that reprints or microreproductions of the full papers should be readily available to interested persons on request.

However, like so many new ideas, this one would raise some serious problems, if it were put into practice. I should like to mention just a few, using the Journal of Dairy Science as an example.

(1) Your Editor would have a very difficult task in assessing the potential world demand for reprints of each of the 300-odd individual papers published in your Journal per year.