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Merril Silverstein, Gerontology Gone Viral, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 71–72, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbs109
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As many readers already know, I recently changed my academic affiliation from the University of Southern California to Syracuse University to become the inaugural holder of the Marjorie Cantor Chair of Aging Studies. I anticipate little difficulty for this journal in the transition, save the challenge of accommodating geographic distance. You see, the editorial office will remain at the University of Southern California with Norella Putney continuing to serve in her position as Managing Editor. But this type of long-distance arrangement is not unusual in the world of scholarly publishing anymore. In fact, the other three Journals of Gerontology (Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Psychological Sciences) and The Gerontologist have been operating this way for the past several years with editors and their managing editors at various degrees of remove from each other. What allows these arrangements to smoothly function is digital communication technology, as well as the functions of ScholarOne Manuscripts that have made the enterprise a paperless affair. Now that the aforementioned journals operate as virtual entities, the next obvious decision is to determine whether publication should be purely virtual or whether paper copy should still be made available. I expect this to be a contentious issue with a sharp generational divide—and one that will be ultimately decided by cost concerns; but that is an issue for another editorial.
