[Terrapreta] Publications

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

Nickolaus,

A great source for free publications is out of Harvard University.   
They along with several other universities offer free internet access  
to 5.8 million copy-righted articles, as long as you use them only  
for your personal use.  It only takes about 30 seconds to register  
with them.

Just register at the following link:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/

Gerrit


On 6-Sep-07, at 11:03 AM, Nikolaus Foidl wrote:

> Dear All!
>
> In the ongoing discussion  there we miss an important point, most  
> of the
> information generated today is paid by public money in form of labs,
> salaries, facilities to do the research and so on. Therefore the  
> obtained
> information and data should be public as well. Now as some greedy  
> companies
> like Elsevier and others or the same universities living mostly on  
> public
> money have high jacked the field of information and sequestered the  
> public
> good to turn it into private income. Its unconceivable to pay for  
> an article
> 30 to 40 US$ again although you already paid with your taxes this  
> product
> before.
> An average literature search is at least 500 to 800 articles( the most
> relevant on the subject you are investigating) and paying again for  
> every
> article this would be a drain of 25.000 to 30.000 US$ per search. I  
> strongly
> disagree with this corrupt praxis of illicit enrichment selling  
> public good.
> This sequestering of public good is a blow against development in  
> science
> because most interested people don't have the recourses to get the  
> needed
> information.
> Shouldn't we fight this praxis of steeling public good?
> Best regards Nikolaus Foidl
>
>
>
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