Inside Asimov Press's 3-month experiment to build a scientific journal that outlives linkrot
zetalyrae · x · 2026-11-16
zetalyrae recounts spending three months trying to start a scientific journal inside Asimov Press. Everyone agrees journals suck, will be outdated by AI, and need publishing experiments — he agrees, and thinks PDFs are uninspiring and interactive versions are needed. But after digging in, he reached a counterintuitive conclusion: requiring PDFs makes sense, because most fancy interactive visualizations will linkrot within 10 years, while you can still read PDFs from 30+ years ago. Long-term preservation is the underrated core value of academic publishing.
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