New online Laminitis journal

[Katy Watts]

Thanks to Elsevier this new laminitis journal is free full text online. Everything we know so far about laminitis.
My contribution starts on Page 88. Hope it is helpful.
Katy Watts www.safergrass.org

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15347516

[Ronald Aalders]

Great new info,

Not being the smartest guy on earth I need all info I can get! But how do I get there? When I click the link it takes me to somewhere but I don't know how to get info on laminitis from there. (This is a horse shoer typing, just knows about hammers and stuff but computers are another matter....)

BTW let me tell you a little about this "friendly" company Elsevier, which is a Dutch company........ They charge so much for allowing Universities to use scientific work published by them, those same Universities can no longer afford them. Being a former student that graduated at one of those Dutch Universities I remember very well the vast amount of publications we could just pick up and read. Apparently Elsevier feels (being the only scientific publisher in the world that feels that way!!) its should no longer allow such studying by students.


Ronald Aalders

P.s. I found how to use that site! The thing they do is make you pay $15.00 for every article you wish to read. You can after payment for a 24 hour period! This is typical Dutch salesman practise! Take my advise, find other ways to get information! Most of the publications I found already have been published on this WWW and reading it there is unlimited and for free. Forget about Elsevier!

[Katy Watts]

When you click on the link Vol 3 issue 1, it has a yellow marker 'complimentary issue'. Other people are reading full text for free. Is everyone else having this problem?
One of the reasons I decided to write for Elsevier journals is they have a new policy that allows the author to post full text preprint versions of published works on a personal website, as long as you link to their online site. I'll have my article up soon on Safergrass as soon as I start my web design class next month.
I share your frustration in the system by which publishers own information that is only sold to to those that can afford it. We don't get paid to write this stuff, for journals or for popular magazines. Some journals make the author pay, and since this research is just a hobby, no way can I publish there without a co-author with funding. GenerallyI can't even access the papers I write! Let's hope the Open Access movement frees up information soon, and we move away from this archaic system where scholars and monks are the only ones priveledged enough to have access to knowledge.
Katy

[Ronald Aalders]

Hi Katy,


I finally found out how to read those articles. There is one (at least) I really like. I'm going to try and explain how to reach that article in the shoers on laminitis section of this board.

Thanks Katy!


Ronald Aalders

P.s. I can't get over the feeling Elsevier is going to charge me big time some way or another for reading this article...........