[time-nuts] Paywall rant
Peter Gottlieb
nerd at verizon.net
Tue Jun 5 20:56:22 UTC 2012
Do it before libraries are outlawed!
Getting information is getting more and more difficult. Perhaps we are
seeing the sunset of the "age of information."
On 06/05/12, Tom Harris<celephicus at gmail.com> wrote:
A previous employer of mine would not come up with a subscription to
IEEE
mags, so I found an alternative: I joined the local university library
as
an external borrower. This gave me a login to all the electronic mags
that
the library subscribed to, unfortunately it only worked inside the
library's firewall, but I was able to download articles onto a USB
stick.
Days of reading fun for $120!
--
Tom Harris <[1]celephicus at gmail.com>
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