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Computer Science is one of the places where dead tree publication is going the way of the dodo pretty soon I think. Results can come very fast, and one of the top journals can take 18+ months to review and publish an article.

By which time it is almost already obsolete.

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Computer Science is one of the places where dead tree publication is going the way of the dodo pretty soon I think.

The flag day for this, as alluded to in another thread, will be when fund-raising and faculty appointments stop being closely tied with dead tree publications. There's been ample time for that transition to happen, but not all the interested parties seem so motivated to change things.

I did not exactly mean it like that. You see more and more magazines and journals offering their accepted publications online first. It will not be long before that will become the main mode of how people learn about these articles.

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