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| Mar 5, 2018 at 20:30 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl♦ | As far as it concerns electronic subscriptions, it is crucial that the subscriber obtains and stores copies of all subscribed content on their own machines. -- And that of course not subject to any kind of "digital rights management" or the like. | |
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 18:25 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | crossposted: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/104425/… | |
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 17:15 | comment | added | Vagabond | @j.c In my University our Department is the only one amongst the Science Departments which subscribe to print versions of Journals. I don't know if it is universal phenomenon. Other sciences, specifically those in "applied'' don't seem to care as much for a "Library" or "print journals" as we do. Just as those involved in "applied fields " needs to justify why they need specific equipments to do their research, we have to justify why we need `print journals' when online is available. | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 16:31 | comment | added | j.c. | @nfdc23 Fortunately, academia.SE does have several active users that are mathematicians; you may recognize a few MO users in this list academia.stackexchange.com/users . | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 16:23 | comment | added | nfdc23 | @j.c.: Mathematicians have greater use for older references than other scientific fields, so there are variants of this question which are more specific to mathematics (among various sciences). That being said, the revised version of the question now contains an interesting new subquestion (namely: do journals serve any purpose at all when material is available for free on the Internet? The answer is of course "yes"). But another site may still be better-suited for it (however where few mathematicians may see it, to provide a perspective which may not arise in other fields). | |
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 15:31 | comment | added | j.c. | As I read it now, the question has little to do with mathematics or mathematicians specifically. You may want to try asking at academia.stackexchange.com which may be better-suited. | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 15:20 | comment | added | Vagabond | Edited The Question. Hope It meets the criteria of this community. | |
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 11:18 | comment | added | YCor | At a shorter scope, one question is about archive. If you stop subscribing to some publisher XXX (for instance, because XXX increases its prices by 10% every year, or because your university cut funds to your library so as to buy rifles for its professors, or whatever), for a printed journal subscription you keep everything you got. For an electronic subscription it's less clear! Also XXX can keep freely available resources older than something, so you don't deal about it, and suddenly put them in restricted access. Etc... | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 11:14 | comment | added | YCor | One question is what of the current knowledge will be accessible in, say, 200 years, given that we don't have full control of what will be going on since then. | |
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 5:19 | comment | added | nfdc23 | Browsing is incredibly valuable for both books and journals (e.g., one could also ask whether it is bad that university libraries are shifting more and more of their new acquisitions to be e-books; this change has a real rationale, but I fear it is a looming disaster). The case seems more compelling in the case of books. Those who have never experienced finding something unexpected while browsing in a university library often don't realize what they're missing. A browsable "virtual library" replicating the real experience would be awesome, but alas seems to be a distant pipe dream. | |
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