tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27705661.post4102725961732093909..comments2023-10-28T10:58:57.140+00:00Comments on Process Algebra Diary: Springer's LNCSLuca Acetohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01092671728833265127noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27705661.post-32185006746962762432010-11-03T06:57:21.747+00:002010-11-03T06:57:21.747+00:00our library has not renewed the subscriptions to L...our library has not renewed the subscriptions to LNCS since last year due to budget cuts, and next year will be worse...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16671466231680363608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27705661.post-17789417051861902062010-11-02T11:20:39.672+00:002010-11-02T11:20:39.672+00:00As a 1st year PhD student I had to work 20% of my ...As a 1st year PhD student I had to work 20% of my time in the CS department’s library (Lund University) and I was shocked when I saw how much the department had to pay for the journal subscriptions (especially since most of them weren’t read by anyone). The LNCS subscription is outrageously expensive but at least you get a lot of paper... <br /><br />A few examples from Elsevier’s 2010 subscription price list for librarians: “Applied Mathematics and Computation” 5499 Eur, “Computers & Operations Research” 3348 Eur, “Computer-Aided Design” 1911 Eur, “Computer Networks” 2194 Eur. However, Elsevier has a TCS “student package” with 12 TCS journals for only 1074 Eur.<br /><br />Luckily we have ACM and IEEE journals that are much cheaper, and of course the completely free journals such as Journal of Graph Algorithms and Journal of Computational Geometry.Joachimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662014960399205931noreply@blogger.com