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The Limits of Online Publishing Date: October 3, 2006
Kansas State University recently announced that it will make some 6-thousand classes available to students through podcasts. Teachers and professors are increasingly using the internet as a resource for students, in and out of the classroom. But some observers are warning that the web is a very unreliable storehouse for information. Commentator John Richard Schrock is concerned that the gradual disappearance of journals and other research published online -- part of a phenomenon known as "linkrot" -- could have some serious consequences for the scientific community.

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Commentator John Richard Schrock is a professor of biology education, and chair of the biology department, at Emporia State Unviersity.
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