Chemical publications are largely journals with a few monographs and were initially society-based. Things have not changed in the last three-hundred years in terms of the way we communicate; in the twentyfirst century it is remarkable that we are still using eighteenth-century technology to communicate. We take very little advantage of modern communication facilities such as the Internet, audio, video, or television. By publishing on paper we are very limited in terms of what sort of information we can distribute to our colleagues. We have essentially no interactivity, no animation, and very little color. What does a researcher want out of a journal? The most important thing that we want is quality science, which we claim we do by peer review. We also want widespread distribution; we want everybody to be able to get the information that we produce and we want to be able to get everything that everybody else does. We want perpetual access. Perpetual access does not mean that we want to be able to read somebody else's article that was published fifty years ago-we want to make sure
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