You might want to become an Adjunct Prof at a nearby univ. This may get you some privileges that the univ library is paying for. Check it out.
arthu -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: Bit Rot part II > It's called World Cat (www.worldcat.org) and claims to catalog every > book in print in the world....That's about as close to the Star Trek > model as we've come so far. Actually, google is very good. What annoys me is that, not infrequently, when I want to get beyond the journalistic level, beyond what's on Wikipedia or pop-sci pages at universities, I discover that JSTOR or Elsevier or a similar site wants me to pay $30 to have my very own personal copy of some scientific paper. I used to have library cards at the Dalhousie Killam Lib and at the medical school lib and could, in any case, walk in and photocopy any article for which they held the right journal. I don't know if that policy has changed, what with vastly more academic journals, higher prices on them, distribution on CD or via special network access accounts. But I had to drive 75 miles to do it 30 years ago. Halifax hasn't gotten any closer, has grown busier and more annoying in that time and I'm less inclined to make the trip anyhow. Seems as though the net should be the perfecr vehicle for disseminating scientific knowledge but I keep hitting a wall. Of course, every so often, google turns up a paywall version of an article and also a copy on some other site that's free. But not always. I wonder if I can enroll in some course for free (under some golden-agers' plan) and get a uni ID that lets me into JSTOR and the like with a uni password. Must look into that. I'd even take a shot at passing the course -- several things I'd like to know more about if I had some guidance in selecting the right stuff to read. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
