Maintaining Serendipity: Entire Issues of JEP for your E-reader

Back inwards 2010, the American Economic Association decided to brand the articles inwards my ain Journal of Economic Perspectives freely available, ungated in addition to without a password. At present, the issues from the virtually recent Winter 2012 dorsum to Winter 1994 are freely available on-line.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel characteristic is right away available. Until now, what has been available is a listing of private articles. However, you tin right away freely download the entire Winter 2012 result of JEP inwards diverse formats: PDF, Kindle, in addition to ePub. Moreover, if you lot desire entire issues of JEP automatically delivered to your Kindle, it is right away possible to subscribe through Amazon. (Amazon doesn't furnish gratis distribution service, but the AEA has negotiated to proceed the cost every bit depression every bit possible.)

I was strongly inwards favor of making the JEP freely available, in addition to thus that the articles could hold upwards widely disseminated in addition to easily linked. However, I bring had to a greater extent than or less job concern that if a magazine becomes but a collection of downloadable articles, readers powerfulness hold upwards less probable to sample private articles inside an issue, instead of but focusing inwards on the specific article that they want. But the technology for e-readers is moving faster than my fears. I suspect that inwards the not-too-distant future, virtually of us volition have virtually of our magazines in addition to journals sent conduct to the e-reader of our choice, fully formatted, in addition to alongside graphics in addition to ads included. The potential for serendipity--finding that intriguing article for which you lot didn't know that you lot were looking--will hold upwards maintained.