Medical Journals

Online journals have largely made Print versions obsolete, something I will be exploring in my Media Ecology paper. Print has quickly been dying out in recent years sue to the widespread availability of online resources for relaying news. It is simply cheaper to produce a paperless and ink less version and out it online than to go to the trouble of printing and distributing a hard copy. What I find interesting, however, is that I found that this phenomenon is prevalent in all areas of publication, even medical journals. It is somewhat surprising to find that medical journals are now increasingly online and out of print, considering that it is still tactless to assume that all people have access to computers. Largely, I found sources where Doctors in third world environments complain that their local publications are being run to the ground by larger corporate, western publications. This will be interesting to study in the future, because I had not thought before that the emergence of online media was anything but obsolescence. Online media has also replaced other resources.