Re:Ask HN: Why aren't scientific journals free on the web?
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday December 05, 2010 @06:46PM
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>just slapping a search engine on a whole bunch of articles exists in Google Scholar, but that hasn't revolutionized anything
That could be because it was around a long time before Google [Scholar].
When I used to do patent searches we used terminal based services including searches of journals (either abstract or fulltext). I'm guessing these were pre-WWW dial-in services.
That could be because it was around a long time before Google [Scholar].
When I used to do patent searches we used terminal based services including searches of journals (either abstract or fulltext). I'm guessing these were pre-WWW dial-in services.