Access of scientists, naturalists and other seekers of knowledge to the new technology depended in part upon their relevant establishments, or their having sufficient personal wealth to pay for the materials, processing and distribution. Independent researchers often had to rely on traditional methods, of well-trained copyists - until they gained sufficient notability to be incorporated into the paper-print system. This contributed to a growth of multi-author publications, where individual scholars combined their resources, and encyclopedias - of which that produced by the Plinys was one of the more notable. Other encyclopedias were, however, regarded with some suspicion, much as Diderot's Encyclopedia was in a later period in OTL.