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Re:Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free by floppydisc on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:49AM (#33718531)
Even further. Can we ditch the goddamn pdf format. It's such a stupid limit to put on papers. I hope the future of journals and articles will become interactive much like Jupyter Notebooks. Jupyter Journal/Article pls.
Re:Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free by bondarchuk on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:59AM (#33718615)
A pdf is basically a digital sheet of paper and I like that. Download a pdf, you have it, you can print it (or not), and you can still look at it 50 years later. Download an interactive journal article: good luck downloading it in the first place. You can't print it. 10 years later you won't be able to open it.
Re:Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free by ynbkc on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:50AM (#33719037)
> Can we ditch the <deity-referencing-expletive> pdf format. It's such a stupid limit to put on papers. I hope the future of journals and articles will become interactive much like Jupyter Notebooks. Jupyter Journal/Article pls.

How do you want this change to come about?

Are you promoting a mandate? Incentives? A change in expectations? Better technologies or formats? Something else?