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What Happens When Science Just Disappears?

What Happens When Science Just Disappears?

What Happens When Science Just Disappears?

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

April 25, 20187m 32s

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Show Notes

Kay Dickersin knew she was leaping to the front lines of scholarly publication when she joined The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials. Scientific print-publishing was—and still is—slow and cumbersome, and reading its results sometimes required researchers to go to the library. But as associate editor at this electronic peer-reviewed journal—one of the very first, launched in the summer of 1992—Dickersin was poised to help bring scientists into the new digital age.

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