It is easy to forget that 350 years ago the scientific journal was itself an innovation, enabled in large part by the emergence of the printing press some 200 years earlier. Today our challenge is to create a new kind of scientific publication, internet-enabled and fit for a data-rich digital age.
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/aug/05/why-we-should-publish-less-scientific-research
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