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COMMENCING with this issue, “Letters to the Editors” of Nature are being printed in a smaller type than hitherto. This is only a temporary measure, but it is not yet possible to state when it will be possible for the correspondence columns to revert to their original form. Though it is only a temporary measure, it is not a pleasant one ; it is, however, essential for reasons of space and for other very important reasons. It is a symptom of a much wider and equally serious problem. Nature, in common with all other journals and periodicals, was compelled, under stress of war conditions, to reduce its size-the number of pages was reduced, the size of page was decreased, and smaller type used in the main part of the journal. Extra supplies of paper were permitted from time to time, but usually on condition that the extra allowance was utilized mainly for increasing the number of copies exported. Thus the position arose that the publishers were able to accept subscriptions from abroad but not from Great Britain. This measure has had its advantages recently, in helping to bring those men of science so long working out of touch with each other back to that international scientific collaboration which Nature has always endeavoured to foster. It needs little imagination to realize how starved of intellectual stimulation and scientific information so many of these men of science must have been during the war years.
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PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION. Nature 157, 205–206 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157205a0
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