Just a few weeks ago I overheard an academic colleague suggest in a discussion that "the habit of reading academic journals really no longer is in sync with our times": Google and other electronic searching devices now offer the capability for every researcher and author to do "on demand", perfectly project-specific inquiries into the fast growing electronic repositories of published materials. This is both more time-efficient, she argued, and yields-with some likelihood-results on research questions at hand that are broader and richer than what even perseverant traditional readers of academic journals can hope to extract and retain from their "anticipatory" general scanning and studying of their peers' work.
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