Comments on: The Evolution of Academic Search http://fstutzman.com/2006/04/12/the-evolution-of-academic-search/ Thoughts about information, social networks, and privacy Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: B http://fstutzman.com/2006/04/12/the-evolution-of-academic-search/comment-page-1/#comment-77 B Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:25:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~fred/projects/blog/?p=224#comment-77 What do you call 'tied to your library'?<br/><br/>I use Jstor quite a lot, because it has everything, but it is paying (and expensive) service--paid by my local National Research Institute. The same institute support HAL, which is an open-archive. I used to go on SSRN, which is for social sciences, and I know ArXiv is great for hard science, mostly because it has som many full texts. I remember using Amazon too, though it is not academic-oriented, it is heavily used by scholars. What do you call ‘tied to your library’?

I use Jstor quite a lot, because it has everything, but it is paying (and expensive) service–paid by my local National Research Institute. The same institute support HAL, which is an open-archive. I used to go on SSRN, which is for social sciences, and I know ArXiv is great for hard science, mostly because it has som many full texts. I remember using Amazon too, though it is not academic-oriented, it is heavily used by scholars.

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