26th August 2005, 2 min read Journals are already dead! Long live eprint servers! 3 thoughts on “Journals are already dead! Long live eprint servers!” Vidar Hokstad says: August 27, 2005 at 6:32 am For computer science research I generally prefer to use Citeseer / Researchindex. The entire concept of paid paper journals is just so quaint – I’d generally rather spend more time tracking down alternative sources online than going to a journal. Vidar Daniel Lemire says: August 27, 2005 at 4:22 pm Absolutely Vidar. Absolutely. Citeseer is great too, but I prefer scholar.google.com to citeseer. Matter of personal choice. What is true is that a paid journal subscription is a crazy luxury. At least, in the kind of areas where I work. Pingback: For Users Only » Blog Archive » Archived (hci) papers available on Cogprints
For computer science research I generally prefer to use Citeseer / Researchindex. The entire concept of paid paper journals is just so quaint – I’d generally rather spend more time tracking down alternative sources online than going to a journal.
Vidar
Absolutely Vidar. Absolutely. Citeseer is great too, but I prefer scholar.google.com to citeseer. Matter of personal choice.
What is true is that a paid journal subscription is a crazy luxury. At least, in the kind of areas where I work.