Found this article on Eurozine by the Swedish intellectual historian Sven-Eric Liedman. I saved the pdf and read it on the Cybook. No problem reading even though I spent the whole day with a brightly shining computer screen. Didn’t felt a need to take notes, or highlight. But then I began to think about how to refer to the article – if the need would arise. The librarian in me I guess… The problem: the article was published in Eurozine. This is what they are writing about themsleves:
Eurozine is a network of European cultural journals, linking up 70 partner journals and just as many associated magazines and institutions from nearly all European countries. Eurozine is also a netmagazine which publishes outstanding articles from its partner journals with additional translations into one of the major European languages.
So they are some kind of journalish magazine. But where are the numbers, the volume, the issues? If I would refer to this article, would the reference look like some anonymous website or blog without the standard serialized conventions? I don’t mind thinking about these tricky little things. It wont take long before the whole journal thinking vanish. This serializing was a sensible thing in the printing era, but now it just seems like something left over from an old and outdated process.
Liedman, Sven-Eric (2008), Eurozine, http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-04-01-liedman-en.html, read 2009-02-12
Or something similar. No problem at all. Love to get rid of all silly serialization in the academic world. Love to get everything immediate, transparent, connectable.
