On 17-2-2009 23:24, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Actually the citable history for many students is whatever is on-line. 
>> Nobody uses the library anymore. Unfortunately people are scanning in 
>> old years of the main journals.
> 
> Wow, that sucks. I can't imagine paying for myself subscriptions to 
> every lame-ass journal I ever had to look something up in.  It's almost 
> criminal how places like IEEE and ACM will take your work, publish it, 
> then charge you to have a copy of it.

Most libraries have on-line subscription, so everything is the same 
except that you don't have to go to the library anymore, but download 
the PDF yourself. In case it wasn't clear, I meant unfortunate for the 
student as they can access (and may have to read) much more than a year 
extra every year.
10 years ago everybody used the library, so you could see citations of 
20 years back or more. Then suddenly journals came on-line and the 
citation horizon dropped to about 5 years (except for second hand 
citations of papers they did not actually read of course). Now the 
citation period is almost back to what it was and even on the way of 
exceeding that, because of scanned journals.

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