[Noisebridge-discuss] FYI Safari Books Online on SFPL

[Christie Dudley]

I think what we decided is that if someone wanted to take it on, then so be
it.  I don't think anyone stepped up to the plate to do so.  As is the case
with a lot of "someone should do" things.

Christie

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> Search for Safari on the wiki and it should bring up meeting notes from
> when someone brought up to the group the possibility of Noisebridge getting
> an account with them. Some folks didn't feel well with the fact that the
> books had some sort of DRM attached but no one blocked any sort of vote.
> Actually if I remember right no vote was taken and the subject was not
> brought up again at later meetings, not too sure what happened.
>
> --
> Rubin Abdi
> rubin at starset.net
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 11:45, Jennifer DarmstadtHolm <estro at surrealityinc.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Also, access to academic/professional journal articles that used to be
>> really only available to universities or companies willing to pay the high
>> subscription fee are becoming available through various changes in the
>> publishing industry.
>>
>> Hindawi, fer instance, has a large section of engineering and science
>> journals open now (ideology info: http://www.hindawi.com/oa.html. Not all
>> journals are open access, and some of the titles haven't started being
>> published yet, but still. Sample journal:
>> http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/volume-2008/  Click through to the
>> articles and select full text pdf.)
>>
>> Mirth.
>>
>> -jen
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 4/2/09, William OConnor <wtoconnor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  From: William OConnor <wtoconnor at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] FYI Safari Books Online on SFPL
>>> To: "NoiseBridge Discuss" <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>>> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 11:03 AM
>>> Since I am a heavy user of O'Reilly books (  lack the
>>> space, money and desire to buy them all for myself) I
>>> consider this is a great resource. I thought others might
>>> like to know about it.
>>>
>>> Safari Books online are available FREE through the San
>>> Francisco Public Library for those that have a library card.
>>>
>>> Goto: http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/emedia/
>>> ClickOn: Safari TechBooks Online
>>> Enter: Your Library card number
>>>
>>> Let me know if this isn't the kind of thing to post on
>>> the list.
>>>
>>> -bill
>>>
>>>
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