  Science depends on a communication system, and today that is largely provided
by digital technologies such as the internet and web. Despite that digital
technologies provide the infrastructure for that communication system,
peer-reviewed journals continue to mimic workflows and processes from the print
era. This paper focuses on one artifact from the print era, the journal issue,
and describes how this artifact has been detrimental to the communication of
science and therefore to science itself. To replace the journal issue, this
paper argues that scholarly publishing and journals could more fully embrace
digital technologies by creating digital libraries to present and organize
scholarly output.
