On 17-2-2009 23:34, Florian Pesth wrote:
> Am Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:24:54 -0800 schrieb Darren New:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Subscriptions to the journals are usually paid for by the university here 
> (in Germany and I would guess it is the same in he Netherlands?) so if 
> you have access to the university network you usually have access to most 
> journals.
True.
BTW I do have this interesting problem of being in a academic hospital 
with access to most medical journals, but not the Biomedical Engineering 
ones. So when I am peer reviewing a paper and want to check a reference, 
I have to resort to my paper versions at home of the IEEE EMBS, that I 
can't throw away for that reason and for another journal I sometimes ask 
the editor if he can get me a copy. I find that a bit annoying, perhaps 
I should take a partial appointment at a technical university.

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