2011-07-22, 06:03 AM
Swerve Wrote:Am I just jaded? Most of the current articles from Science! and ASM are provided upon release. Is there really a need to keep up with the most current scientific experiments without waiting for them to be printed into textbook format? Amusing, yes. Interesting, yes. Informative, yes. This also files under why you pay for a New York Times subscription. Crucial to day to day activities? Not so much. Most of the people who are interested in scientific articles are individuals who are willing to pay and maintain the subscription or who get it free anyway.
Information from the 1900s that could very well be invalid and outdated by today's standards shouldn't be bought. Not only that, but from what I've read the journal writers don't even get any money from their journals being sold. So why are we paying for it? Information like this should be free since it isn't compulsory to your learning and is relatively just a complement to it.