blog! “Page numbers aren't the answer”
There's a new pre-print paper called Pinpointing the problem: Providing page numbers for citations as a crucial part of open science by Leon Y. Xiao and Nick Ballou. It's a short, easily understandable paper, and well worth a read. I think I disagree with nearly all of its conclusions! The main point, I agree with. […]
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@Edent I think 'academic paper' is a big clue to why everything is broken. When we printed, then we digitalled, we broke the models the monks handed down to us (on a scrolling medium.) Pages were a major infotech schism. We don't even separate concerns.