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Professional societies and their journals, like living organisms, have life cycles; they are born, grow, reproduce, and die. These journals should emulate the practices of commercial journals in order to cope with increasingly rapid change in technology.
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MENARD, H. WILLIAM. 1971. Science: growth and change. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 215 pp.
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Cochran, W. (1979). Publication Practices Used by Professional Societies. In: Harvey, A.P., Diment, J.A. (eds) Geoscience Information. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7444-2_11
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