On 23/09/2011 09:34, Dave Malham wrote:
..
Anyone with a university login can search and download all IEEE papers
freely via the "IEEEXplore" facility, even an unpaid external
"visiting research fellow" such as myself. It would be nice if the AES
provided a similar resource.
Richard - the cost to the University is an order of magnitude greater
for IEEEXplore access than it is for them to subscribe to the AES
equivalent. This is, of course, partly because the IEEE library is very,
very much larger. IEEEXplore is not cost-free except in as far as
Universities decide to make it so to users. It _is_ a fantastic
resource, as is the AES library. We've been trying here to persuade the
Uni here to subscribe to the AES library for years, but with no luck yet
- there are just so many other demands on the limited funds the library
has available.
Indeed. I still hope to try again with Bath Uni. I would guess it is
probably an either/or issue, and as you say even though expensive, the
IEEE archive is so much larger (and I assume covers a much wider range
of topics) that it is the preferred option. As most of the people
writing papers I am likely to be interested in are now presenting to
DAFx, the need for me to subscribe to the AES dwindled considerably.
People like myself really get more mileage out of core textbook
resources unfolding an integrated studyable progression than from a
multitude of individual papers. The Zolzer DAFx book is my pride and
joy, even though at £75 (!) I suspect I have yet to make sufficient use
of it to claim it has repaid itself. It has at most two pages discussing
Ambisonics.
Which of course is also why I continue to wait for a full comprehensive
and authoritative reference book on Ambisonics covering all the
post-Gerzon and HOA material which is presently scattered all over the
place, partly in the archives of this list, partly in a smattering of
papers here and there, and partly still tucked away inside the heads of
the most active developers and researchers. The absence of such a text
(what - forty years on?) makes me wonder whether much of the subject is
in fact sufficiently controversial or debatable for any one individual
to be not prepared to go quite that public.
Richard Dobson
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