LCE: All watched over by machines of loving grace [LWN.net]

LCE: All watched over by machines of loving grace

Posted Nov 15, 2012 18:37 UTC (Thu) by dps (subscriber, #5725)
Parent article: LCE: All watched over by machines of loving grace

When wikipedia and the other bits of the web start pointing at pay walls and I have few good pointers I actually go to an academic library. The magic is that there you can get through most of the pay walls without actually paying. You also find out who cited that work, which would normally also cost money but does not. (This may be a function of the pay walls I tend to run into.)

Given that Karsten went to a *university* library in the late 1990s it is slightly surprising he did not have access to a good range of online journals. I know that a complete range of monographs and conference proceedings is largely restricted to libraries that have a legal right to a free copy.

Hopefully IV's patent will means that the manufacturers of 3D printers do not implement DRM to avoid patents in that area.

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LCE: All watched over by machines of loving grace

Posted Dec 5, 2012 15:10 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I was at university from 1989 to 1993, then tried to keep up with my field for a coupe of years more. When I lost interest about 2000, there still weren't any online resources that I could use, not even from the university library -- which didn't have any computers in any case, let alone access to online journals. Of course, my field wasn't technical -- comparative linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman languages -- but it was a fairly primitive era, too.

When I got interested in Krita around 2003, I didn't have any access to a university library anymore, but others in the project had, and they could usually give me a pdf of any article I needed, though sometimes I needed to approach the original authors.