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- From: hdev@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught)
- Subject: Re: Some musings on expensive journals
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:58:55 GMT
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- sbrown@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Scott Brown) writes:
-
- > 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;
- [rest deleted]
-
- That is only a smart thing to do when you are checking the latest issues.
- But you must know that al titles + abstracts of almost every journal is
- collected in for instance: Zentralblat fur Mathematiek (problem some typo in
- there). Don't be afraid of the German title: it is almost entirely in English
- (since that's the language that is normally used in science).
-
- And of course if you have to much money, you can acces several databases as
- well. But then I have to agree with you, just paging through some journals can
- be rewarding: you find that article that you wouldn't have found otherwise.
- --
- Hans de Vreught | John von Neumann:
- hdev@dutiaa.tudelft.nl | Young man, in mathematics
- Delft University of Technology (TWI-ThI) | you don't understand things,
- The Netherlands | you just get used to them.
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