On 2012-01-09, Eric Carmichel wrote:
I have to agree with Dave M. that the Acta Acustica united with Acustica articles can be fiendishly expensive (Dave's words). As a student, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can get these through inter-library loan. [...]
Then always remember that some of us aren't students, or even altogether formally affiliated with the field of study. Just avid amateurs. From our viewpoint, there is no institution who would ever pay our article fees. We'd have to pay them out of pocket, at some 20€ a-piece.
Even if you have a steady source of income and you're interested in the field, you have to be rather wealthy in order to keep up with the field then. While at the same time you're quite probably paying your fare share of the underlying research cost in taxes. At least I think I'm near that situation, even with purely publicly funded research papers, just about now.
In some instances, articles of interest can be found as a doctoral thesis / dissertation and, consequently, available through a university at no charge.
That's how I get most of my reading, at least. I should get all of it that way, mind you. :)
As an example, I have a pdf copy of Sylvain Favrot's PhD thesis titled "A loudspeaker-based room auralization system for auditory research." This thesis (with some modifications) appeared as an article in Acta Acustica united with Acustica. [...]
So, why not share it fully and openly? Perhaps because copyright restrictions limit your doing so? Well, in that case, here in Finland we are still in the happy situation where copying from a legitimate source, and copying to one's friends, is fully allowed. As such, even if the copyright mafia doesn't much like it, I (and any other Finnish folks) can work as a legal intermediary to get the papers out there.
That's what the Motherlode is also about, then. :)
Similarly, a rather expensive book regarding transaural stereo techniques by William Gardner can be found (in dissertation form) on MIT's website.
Link, or it didn't happen.
I certainly respect international copyright law, so I don't distribute info I've obtained unless the publisher has given permission.
That's not the whole of international copyright law, then. I should know: I'm an ideological pirate as well, rather well versed and connected with even more well versed folks, in that sort of thing.
Should anyone know legal ways of obtaining the Acta Acustica articles, or the information contained in them, I would be most grateful for the help.
I think I just told you one: using Finnish intermediaries (me or otherwise). There is a certain beauty to international legal arbitrage as well, you know. :)
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