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Re: Digital archive for Journal of Navigation
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Mar 25, 15:54 -0000
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Mar 25, 15:54 -0000
Andres wrote- "Asking for the price of the Digital archive for Journal of Navigation, http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=NAV this is the answer: The digital archive for Journal of Navigation runs from Volume 1 in 1947 until Volume 50 in 1997. The journal is usually included as a part of our Earth & Atmospheric Sciences archive package; however it is available to individual subscribers alone for the price of 2,000 GBP. " ====================================== Comment from George- That is indeed absurd. Isn't Andres a RIN member, as I am? RIN are intending to offer the complete back archive of "The Journal of Navigation", from 1948, free to members, and I have tried it once today and it has given me what I asked for. But on another occasion, today, the link from the RIN website led me to different page at Cambridge online journals that did not provide the free access that it should have done. So I suspect there is a technical problem that needs fixing, and I have informed the RIN office about it. That is little help to any non-member who may be keen to search out pages from "Journal of Navigation" articles: these provide a rich resource of great interest to Navlist members. But one-off copies of an article will cost something like $30. RIN were producing a DVD with the complete archive up to 2005, and I have a copy, but with the supposed on-line availability of the archive (to members), have now dropped it. To supplement that DVD, I have hard-copy of more recent issues. If anyone wishes to read a reference to a Journal of Navigation article for research, then they may well find me cooperative, as long as the article can be readily identified. Just ask directly, to george-at-hux.me.uk , and provide an email address. I'm talking about one-to-one, rather than public attachments or links. It's something that has worked both ways. I've been grateful, in the past, to members of the US Institute of Navigation, who have kindly provided copies of papers published in their journal, "Navigation" . Yours, George. contact George Huxtable, at george@hux.me.uk or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.