Wednesday, October 26, 2011

'Trash' journals

When I was an undergrad student, it was not allowed to borrow Nature or Science journals out of our library. They are precious source honored as presents from the God. After I came to US, I found that those journals can be found anywhere here and sometimes you can find stacks of journals through several years in a corner. They look like trash. And maybe you cannot imagine that when I left my college, online source especially the access to top journals was very limited - you cannot download PNAS, Science or Nature. If you want to get some reference, there are some in the library - which are years' old. Maybe these years the condition has been improved but it was horrible. Looking at these, I got an inspiration that next time when I back to China, I will carry nothing but a large box of journals which were in the corner of my lab - even though they are out of date, at least students in my college can have a sense of how those top journals look like. They do not have to reply on the limited source in the library which provides journals in 1980s. The journals will be free to anyone who is studying the college for anywhere as long as they return it. I believe this way they will have a better sense what they are going to pursue in their career.

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