The Trouble for Elsevier snippet is about the cost of
scholarly articles and how it started a major boycott. It is talking about how
scholarly articles are being restricted and that universities pay too much to
get the articles but it takes too long to get it to the readers. They want librarians
to boycott for-profit scholarly articles. The New England Journal of Medicine snippet
is about the Journal of Medicine’s 200th anniversary. The lady talks
to the editor and chief about its highs and lows of the Journal including the
mistakes they have made over the years. He said that the first treatment of leukemia
is one of the published achievements. The Changing Nature of Knowledge snippet
is about how the nature of knowledge is shifting on the internet. The guy
talking states that knowledge over the internet is turning in to big contradictory
connections that travel on forever, that the facts are not the facts anymore,
and that the facts do not solve disputes anymore, but the nature of knowledge
is more open and has a bigger horizon than it did. How these articles relate to
each other is that knowledge is attained to write this journal and scholarly
articles. How knowledge is shifting today because of the internet is how some
of the scholarly articles are trying to make a profit off of them and that the
horizon of knowledge has grown over the years is how the New England Journal’s
successes increases by the more informed and better quality of information they
write about. I was quite bored listening to these snippets but I can say it was
quite informal. These stories definitely have to do with me as an undergrad
student because I am in the society where the nature of knowledge is growing
and how some of my research is or might be limited because of the major
companies trying to make a profit. And for my field of study the Journal of
Medicine is a great way of me keeping up with information around the world in
the medical field.
Articles really are becoming too expensive all these ridiculous prices for information I'm surprised people even buy them. I agree it does affect us as we study because it limits the information that we need to do important research. Also many journals are around but sometimes are difficult to find.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that the firms that control the source in the information, is almost excessive almost to the point in which they want a profit, but the charge they require is nearly ridiculous. And for what ever ones major maybe, I feel as though it is necessary to provide students,,or people in general with substantial information.
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