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\section{Why Write More?}\\  Anyone involved with scholarly communication knows there's tons of work competing for limited attention. And with the annual rate of STM (sci [science], tech [technical], and med [medical]) publications over 2 million, fields keep getting \textit{noisier}.\\ \textit{noisier}.  Clearly, no (sane) person can read every article in every journal relating to a given discipline. As authors, though, we want to contribute, have our effort efforts  seen, and (ideally) cited. There are a growing number of services making article discovery easier, but we still run into the attention problem: I don't have time to read every 5+ page article I should \textit{should}  read and reading the abstract and skimming figures  doesn't give me enough information (and we're not even touching the terror presented by paywalls).\\  With these problems in mind, we're starting a series that provides tips on paywalls).