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Journal collections

 
 
creation
22:19 / 24.03.06
Where does one go about getting full journal collections for a year. I see them in the library all the time, but I'd like to own some of these. Are they going to be ridiculously over priced or something?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
00:39 / 25.03.06
Yes, and also, you might be stopping someone from getting something really important...
 
 
Isadore
01:36 / 25.03.06
Easy: subscribe to the journal for a year. (I do this with a number of IEEE pubs.) They don't come in handy hardbound format, obviously, but that's easy enough to rectify with your local bookbinder.

OR ... Try haunting your local library's sales of purged books. My mom picked up fifty years of Art in America and another weird and not entirely useful art journal at the local library book sale a few years back; apparently nobody was checking them out, or something.

I have yet to see collected archives of the Journal for Applied Physics come up for sale here, though, which is a real pity.
 
 
Cat Chant
07:37 / 25.03.06
subscribe to the journal for a year

Individual subscriptions to journals are often about one-quarter of the price of institutional subscriptions, and relatively affordable.
 
 
semioticrobotic
22:31 / 26.03.06
Never underestimate journals that publish exclusively online (like my fav reads: Performance Paradigm, Fibreculture, and Game Studies).

Your library might also have electronic subscriptions to academic journals. More often than not, dead-tree versions of journals are also published in pdf. This makes them easily downloadable, collectable and portable -- and, most importantly, searchable.
 
 
Loomis
06:32 / 27.03.06
Plus most journals sell back issues going back a long way. If you send them an email asking for back issues for years x-y then you might be able to get a deal.
 
  
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