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Re:MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate by rms on Thursday March 19, 2009 @09:06PM (#524313)
At Pitt I can go to the library's website and request journals they don't have access to, I get an email the next day with a .pdf of the journal article requested.
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Re:MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate by sketerpot on Friday March 20, 2009 @01:09AM (#524543)
That sounds like a lot of rigamarole for a paper that might not even be worth reading.
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Re:MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate by rms on Friday March 20, 2009 @01:15AM (#524552)
It's not that much harder than having to VPN into the university in the first place.
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Re:MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate by sketerpot on Friday March 20, 2009 @02:26AM (#524621)
You can automate the VPN'ing. Or, in my case, I just use an on-campus computer which doesn't need to VPN. What you can't automate away into instantaneousness is the delay of waiting a day for a paper to get there.
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