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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu
[mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of Michael
Lovejoy
>Okay, okay. I'll wait for the paper. problem
is I don't know where it will be published.
(Nature?) That
would be telling. (Actually, as the reference in the Prum article which
got the whole thing going said "Nature", that wouldn't be
telling.)
PLEASE
review the archives to see the importance of waiting for a paper so that the
contents are not spilled prematurely, thus jeopardizing the possibility of
publication.
When
important articles come out, they will most definitely be announced here; that
is, for me, the main utility of this list!
>
The real problem is that being short of cash I can't simply subscribe to
every journal going. So, can you recommend which
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journals would be the best for a low-budget dinophile to subscribe to? I
imagine this is a problem for many of those on this
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list, so we (well, me, anyway) will find this advice
useful.
No non-scientist
should subscribe to Nature or Science, unless you've got cash
to burn. Heck, I just read the University's copies (or now the online
version). For every 2 pages of paleo you get something like 100 pages of
non-paleo material, be it research in dozens of other fields, news, reviews,
classifieds, ads, etc.
In fact, my general
advice is don't subscribe to anything until you've seen an issue or two of it
yourself. Then you can be the judge. Please remember, technical
journals are technical; they do not hold back on the terminology (nor should
they; they are written by the professionals for the professionals. It is
where science is done!). If you aren't willing to shell out great wads of
cash for articles that are full of jargon and low on interpretation, then don't
subscribe.
The best of all
possible worlds is to be near a university or museum library, where you can
xerox just the stuff you need.
Anyone else have
some thoughts on this?
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. |