SYNOPSIS JOURNALS AS SEEN BY THEIR AUTHORS

Synopsis journals have been suggested in recent years as a possible solution to some of the problems of scholarly journal publishing. In a synopsis journal, the conventional printed version contains a one‐or two‐page summary of the paper, possibly including one or two diagrams, tables or references. The full paper appears in microfiche or miniprint directly from the typescript, or it is archived and photocopies are made available on request. Typically, the full paper has the conventional layout of a scholarly paper with a short abstract at the start, but the synopsis as such does not appear in the full paper. (Miniprint is printing in reduced size, usually with four or nine typescript pages on one printed page. A magnifying glass is required to read it.)