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- From: sbrown@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Scott Brown)
- Subject: Some musings on expensive journals
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:01:37 GMT
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- Regarding the issue of the expense involved in maintaining
- an up-to-date journal library:
-
- In response to the suggestion that putting journals
- on-line instead of hardcopy would solve the problem, I
- hope that I am not alone in voicing a resounding *NONONO!*
- Pleez O Pleez no! Why? For starters, I cannot imagine that
- it would be nearly as conducive to perusing journals as the
- hardcopy is. There is a joy in wandering through a crowded
- library stacks with half an hour to kill, selecting a journal
- at random from a field of interest, and skimming the contents;
- many's the time I have discovered a useful tidbit in this
- fashion, or stumbled across some previously unmown to me
- article which set me on a hunt for more information. Try
- as I might, I cannot reproduce this effect on-line, be it
- reading newsgroups, examining source code, using MathSciDisk,
- or whatever. Until monitors 2meters by 3meters are the norm,
- I can't see any practical way to reproduce this electronically.
-
-
- On a related note: does anyone know if there is any
- information as to which journals are the most expensive per
- page? per subscribing institution?
-
- scott brown
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