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Roger Critchlow-2

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/abs/nature05302.html

The power law distributions of city size mask a turbulent dynamics in which
individual cities rapidly change size and rank.

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Robert Holmes

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Did you try to follow the link for the full text? $30!!! Now I know that
Nature has to make their money just as much as any of the rest of us, but it
galls me that after paying my taxes to fund this particular researcher and
his institution I don't get access to the results for free....

R

On 12/4/06, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

>
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/abs/nature05302.html
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> The power law distributions of city size mask a turbulent dynamics in
> which individual cities rapidly change size and rank.
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Robert J. Cordingley

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R,

Seems like there are lots of choices: a) you could always try contacting
the author for a personal copy, b) wait for the full text to be on line
through your favorite local library on line source (Nature is delayed 12
months via my library), c) subscribe to Nature to access all their
articles, d) buy a copy of the magazine at your local news
agent/bookstore, e) borrow someone else's copy, d) read the copy in the
library, e) write to your MP, f) invoke freedom of information
legislation for government funded work to release it, etc... Of course
some government funded research should not be published at all.

Building on this... May be as much free information as there is on the
internet is spoiling us? What should be free and what should be
commercial? Who decides, authors, the Open Content Alliance, someone
else? See:

http://connect.educause.edu/Brewster_Kahle_Interview_CNI_2005

Robert C

Robert Holmes wrote:

> Did you try to follow the link for the full text? $30!!! Now I know
> that Nature has to make their money just as much as any of the rest of
> us, but it galls me that after paying my taxes to fund this particular
> researcher and his institution I don't get access to the results for
> free....
>
> R
>
> On 12/4/06, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org <mailto:rec at elf.org>> wrote:
>
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/abs/nature05302.html
>
> The power law distributions of city size mask a turbulent dynamics
> in which individual cities rapidly change size and rank.
>
> -- rec --
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
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George Duncan

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In reply to this post by Robert Holmes

I got the text in pdf form at
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/pdf/nature05302.pdf for
free.

Of course Nature doesn't get any money that may have supported the
researcher or his institution, University College London.

BTW, here's Mike Batty's home page
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/MikesPage.htm

George

On 12/4/06, Robert Holmes <robert at holmesacosta.com> wrote:

>
> Did you try to follow the link for the full text? $30!!! Now I know that
> Nature has to make their money just as much as any of the rest of us, but it
> galls me that after paying my taxes to fund this particular researcher and
> his institution I don't get access to the results for free....
>
> R
>
> On 12/4/06, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
>
> > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/abs/nature05302.html
> >
> > The power law distributions of city size mask a turbulent dynamics in
> > which individual cities rapidly change size and rank.
> >
> > -- rec --
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
> >
> >
>
> ============================================================
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> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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>

--
George T. Duncan
Professor of Statistics
Heinz School of Public Policy and Management
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-2172
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Robert Holmes

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On 12/4/06, George Duncan <gd17 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> I got the text in pdf form at
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/pdf/nature05302.pdf for
> free.
>

Nope - takes me straight through to the "you've not got a subscription so
where's our $30" page

Of course Nature doesn't get any money that may have supported the
> researcher or his institution, University College London.
>

Yes they do. UCL pays an institutional subscription to get full-text access
to Nature. And UCL (if it's like other UK universities) gets an awful lot of
it's funding from public sources.

BTW, here's Mike Batty's home page
> http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/MikesPage.htm
>

Thanks for that - I've emailed him.

R
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George Duncan

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Ah, must be that Carnegie Mellon also has a site license so I can get it.

George

On 12/4/06, Robert Holmes <robert at holmesacosta.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> On 12/4/06, George Duncan <gd17 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I got the text in pdf form at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/pdf/nature05302.pdf
> > for free.
> >
>
> Nope - takes me straight through to the "you've not got a subscription so
> where's our $30" page
>
>
> Of course Nature doesn't get any money that may have supported the
> > researcher or his institution, University College London.
> >
>
> Yes they do. UCL pays an institutional subscription to get full-text
> access to Nature. And UCL (if it's like other UK universities) gets an awful
> lot of it's funding from public sources.
>
>
> BTW, here's Mike Batty's home page http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/MikesPage.htm
> >
>
> Thanks for that - I've emailed him.
>
> R
>
>
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>