Nature 7th July '05, Tons of MER articles!!! |
Nature 7th July '05, Tons of MER articles!!! |
Jul 8 2005, 01:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
Hi Folks, try and track down a copy of the latest Nature, I think you will like it........
Brian ( Volume 436 Number 7047, pp 1-150) http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/marsrover/index.html edited to provide link.... -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Jul 17 2005, 06:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86 |
I suppose just being published is enough, since you can put it on your resume..
Regardless, the editing staff needs to be paid, and the distribution staff, and the publishing staff, and the marketing staff, and whatever other departments I missed.. Honestly though I do download copyrighted things (no wait, I'm joking!, sorry RIAA/MPAA/whoever else), but I always buy them eventually if they're good. When I'm rich I'll buy everything and everyone will be happy. When it comes to the written word, though, it somehow seems more unfair to 'pirate' it. I guess I personally just have more respect for writers than musicians and directors/actors/etc (although movies are written, but screenplay writers have it easy, and oh yeah, music lyrics, which technically make no sense 99% of the time). |
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Jul 17 2005, 09:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
OK, so let's see, I write to Nature and ask to purchase a copy to read the early MER findings.
They write back, telling me I need to buy a year's subscription. I try to buy a year's subscription, and they tell me that they are an industry-specific publication, and I must *prove* that I am in a field that requires a subscription to their magazine... I don't know for sure that Nature would follow this policy, but I *do* know that AW&ST does. As do several other periodicals that publish results from NASA probes. Tell me I'm doing something unethical trying to get access to something that *I have paid for* (with my taxes) when the publishers, when I offer them money, refuse on the grounds that I don't buy the products their advertisers are advertising... at that point, I say that the publishers are acting unethically and any distribution "behind their backs" is not only justified, they asked for it... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jul 17 2005, 12:45 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jul 17 2005, 09:25 AM) er periodicals that publish results from NASA probes. Tell me I'm doing something unethical trying to get access to something that *I have paid for* (with my taxes) when the publishers, when I offer them money, refuse on the grounds that I don't buy the products their advertisers are advertising... at that point, I say that the publishers are acting unethically and any distribution "behind their backs" is not only justified, they asked for it... The problem is that Nature and many other journals don't get any of that funding. So someone has to pay for the production. -------------------- |
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