[Noisebridge-discuss] FYI Safari Books Online on SFPL

[Brian Ferrell]

Rubin: Yeah, that was me trying to deal with that nonsense. It kinda
fell apart when 5 people said maybe. The plans were quite expensive
and quite limited (over $100/person/year for access to up to 10 books
per month, with no downloads or printing). I just dropped the idea of
pursuing it and figured if people really wanted it, it would come up
again. While in the mean-time, something better might come up (like
collecting physical books or... hey, this library thing!)

Anyway, that's a great find and I will definitely use it. Thanks!

-Brian

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Tito Jankowski <titojankowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great links. Also, for those times when you need a non-open access science
> paper and don't want to pay $30 apiece...
> As a non-academic with the DIYbio community, I send my requests off to
> getarticles _at_ googlegroups.com. The group, made up of students who *do*
> have free access to articles, will send you back a pdf or upload the article
> to scribd.
> Tito
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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