R,
Seems like there are lots of choices: a) you could always try contacting
the author for a personal copy, b) wait for the full text to be on line
through your favorite local library on line source (Nature is delayed 12
months via my library), c) subscribe to Nature to access all their
articles, d) buy a copy of the magazine at your local news
agent/bookstore, e) borrow someone else's copy, d) read the copy in the
library, e) write to your MP, f) invoke freedom of information
legislation for government funded work to release it, etc... Of course
some government funded research should not be published at all.
Building on this... May be as much free information as there is on the
internet is spoiling us? What should be free and what should be
commercial? Who decides, authors, the Open Content Alliance, someone
else? See:
http://connect.educause.edu/Brewster_Kahle_Interview_CNI_2005
Robert C
Robert Holmes wrote:
Did you try to follow the link for the full text? $30!!! Now I know
that Nature has to make their money just as much as any of the rest of
us, but it galls me that after paying my taxes to fund this particular
researcher and his institution I don't get access to the results for
free....
R
On 12/4/06, Roger Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/abs/nature05302.html
The power law distributions of city size mask a turbulent dynamics
in which individual cities rapidly change size and rank.
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