Mind, it's far from a panacea. It's remarkably expensive (almost $300/year), necessarily limited in scope (only four topic areas available at initial rollout), and currently appears to be slashdotted all to hell. (Actually, I have a nasty suspicion that some geek got offended at the idea of such an anti-"democratic" move, and has DDoD'ed them, but we'll see.) I suspect that it's never going to be all that much better than a good printed bibliography, of which there are many. But at least in theory this seems like a potentially useful new service, at least to those doing serious research in fields that are covered by it...
Oxford University Press comes up with a research site
Mind, it's far from a panacea. It's remarkably expensive (almost $300/year), necessarily limited in scope (only four topic areas available at initial rollout), and currently appears to be slashdotted all to hell. (Actually, I have a nasty suspicion that some geek got offended at the idea of such an anti-"democratic" move, and has DDoD'ed them, but we'll see.) I suspect that it's never going to be all that much better than a good printed bibliography, of which there are many. But at least in theory this seems like a potentially useful new service, at least to those doing serious research in fields that are covered by it...
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Is anybody following me only here any more?
(Unlike nearly everything I post, this is intentionally only being posted to LiveJournal.) A few days ago, I posted my analysis of the new LJ Terms…
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Signal Boost: Affordable Housing at Assembly Square
Mainly for Somerville residents -- the developer of an enormous new apartment complex at Assembly Square is trying to skeeve out of some of the…
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A Study of the Battleground
When I dubbed my current politics posts with the tag "wartime thoughts", that was not originally intended as a general statement about the…
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