I thought this article might be of interest to many on this list. I've thought about similar issues with regards to academic journals. That is, if the reference is not available online, how likely are people to make the effort to go to the library and make a copy? Do citations decline? Many American Psychological Association articles are not available online. And for ones that are, it has only been in the last year that even UC Berkeley provided access for students. Now, if you're Psych Review or the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (the field's top journals), maybe you can get away with this, but for how long? At least with those pubs you can find the citations, if not the full text. Evidently not necessarily true for WSJ. - Jennifer ---------- Whither The Wall Street Journal? By Adam L. Penenberg Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66697,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4 ...[I]t might be hard to believe that The Wall Street Journal is in danger of becoming irrelevant, but it is.... Because you have to subscribe to access both current news articles and the archive, the Journal is leaving only a faint footprint in cyberspace. Since most people refuse to pay for WSJ stories, most bloggers are reluctant to link to them. It also has an impact on anyone who uses the web for research -- and there are a lot of us. As importantly, the next generation of readers is growing up by accessing news over the internet, and one place they are not surfing to is WSJ.com. With their habits being formed now, there is little chance the Journal will become part of their lives, either now or in the future. --- Jennifer Kurkoski Ph.D. Student, Organizational Behavior Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley kurkoski@haas.berkeley.edu 510.643.1407 http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/kurkoski