Scientific journals

Does anyone know about how to access scientific journals? I tried to sign up to one of them but couldn't actually download any of the papers.

you need an account at the uni my friend.

or you need to order the journals.

no?

or you could try your local public library....

google scholar

google maps

journals are hella expensive dude. most are a couple hundred dollars a year. best bet is through a university library. Also, Rambo seems to be on to something... perhaps you could google maps a university library and zoom in on other people reading them.

it's totally efficient if you get to know the prog imo

I know that you can get an account through your local library and then access them over the internet for free. We had to do this at a community college I used to go to. IDK about the UK though

I know it's not cool to talk about pancakes 'n shit, but if anyone has access to astm pm me yo

without an institution pass its basically much too expensive for anyone to do privately, I think public libraries may allow access though.

"you need an account at the uni my friend"

posting in a joshier thread

depending on the subject http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ can be very handy

watmm is my primary source of news

  goDel said:

depending on the subject http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ can be very handy

I use citeseer too

thru the uni innit

  Rabid said:

  goDel said:

depending on the subject http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ can be very handy

I use citeseer too

all the really smart people use citeseer!

Why are journals so expensive?

because they contain decades of research in each volume.

anyway they are not meant to be bought by individuals but by libraries and research institutes. go to one and you'll have acces for free.

  GORDO said:

because they contain decades of research in each volume.

 

anyway they are not meant to be bought by individuals but by libraries and research institutes. go to one and you'll have acces for free.

I'm really not sure that my library will have one. they are very old fashioned. I'll have to look into it. Thanks.

But you could loiter suspiciously in the children's section and kill two birds with one stone!

  joshier said:

  GORDO said:

because they contain decades of research in each volume.

 

anyway they are not meant to be bought by individuals but by libraries and research institutes. go to one and you'll have acces for free.

 

I'm really not sure that my library will have one. they are very old fashioned. I'll have to look into it. Thanks.

not in any library, look in an university library, in one specialized in whatever subject you are looking into.

depending on the field those expensive scientific journals aren't as important as they used to. many researchers just put their papers online (or drafts, if the article happens to be in one of those expensive journals). but again, this greatly depends on the field.