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by batpad 5377 days ago
uh.. and what if you're in India? uhh .. apply for a Visa at your local consulate, hop onto a plane, go down to the library ... not very convenient, innit? I'm sorry, but academic data walled up in closed journals (im sorry you live in a coccoon where you think everyone has a local university library) is malicious withholding of information - i dont imply that malice exists on the part of the scientist publication, but of the larger system - smug statements that data available only to experts will save the 'wise ones' from useless questions and let them do work or so, are, i think, retarded. any-how, just my personal opinion.
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Interlibrary Loan. There are places in the world that don't have internet either you know.