Eventually publishing in our field will turn to this model as well. ""There's been a capitulation on the question of importance." Exactly. Two years ago I wrote about how "scholars have uses for archives that archivists cannot anticipate," and these new science journals flip that equation from the past into the future: aside from rare and obvious discoveries (the 1%), we can't tell what will be important in the future, so let's publish as much as possible (the 99%) and let the community of scholars rather than editors figure that out for themselves."
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