Just as many a college professor has dispensed with the textbook in favor of a collection of readings that he assembles and Kinko's duplicates,
Violation of copyright!
and just as many academic journals are evolving from thick publications into searchable websites
I wish! JSTOR is searchable but the danged journals won't allow the newer journals to go online! This is history, economics, history of economics, and other social "sciences" -- off the top of my head, can't recall whether the limitation is 5 years or 10, but it's a real pain in the neck.
Other disciplines are luckier, e.g., law, although I have no idea what Lexis-Nexis Academic costs the institutions compared to JSTOR.
The big publishing companies charge an arm and a leg if you want to search their individual journals, which is ok for your bigger colleges, they can afford it, but trying to work around by photocopies is very much a violation of copyright.
I just paid $93 for a used statistics textbook yesterday, I wish there was a cheaper way, but "steal this book" isn't it. |
