Florian Pesth wrote:
> Am Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:01:11 +0000 schrieb Invisible:
> 
>> As for "Science, 261, 189, 9 July 1993", what does that actually *mean*?
>>
> (Assuming you don't already know this stuff, but maybe it is still useful 
> for someone else) It is a short way of citing articles of scientific 
> journals. In this case the journal is called "Science Magazine", the 
> volume is 261 and the pagenumber, where the article starts, is 189.
> 
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/261/5118/189
> 
> Usually you have to subscribe to such journals to download articles, and 
> it is very expensive to subscribe to them, so usually it is only done by 
> universities or research institutions.

I see. So *this* is why you can never actually read all these papers 
they tell you exist? [I've never read a "paper" in my life, for example. 
And I'm not very clear on what one actually "is" either.]

> If there is a university near you, 
> you can try to get articles at the library, as journal subscriptions are 
> usually for the university network and (at least in germany) you can get 
> a university library card also as a normal person for a very small fee 
> (something like 10 € for a year). For finding articles
> 
> http://scholar.google.com
> 
> is not bad, although there are better search pages for which you have to 
> pay a subscription fee.

OK.

Well in this case, I probably wouldn't understand the paper in question 
anyway, but still...

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