Reading Made Easy
There has been much in the media this past week about an article in the journal, Nature, discussing the recent find of what the authors call "our earliest ancestors". The evolutionary paleoanthropologists who found the skulls and wrote the article have dated them as 160,000 years old.
I'm interested in this article, as I don't believe their dating methods provide accurate results. More on that in a later article.
I don't subscribe to this journal and I've not made it to the library to look for it yet. But I have found a source for it online through my local public library. And that's what I want to let you know about.
The Stewart Public Library in Grinnell, Iowa is one of many that subscribes to a search service from EBSCO Publishing. They, like many libraries, have opened up this service to their patrons. My local library has given me a login name and password to access this wonderful service and they did so at no cost to me. That's pretty cool!
As it turns out, I need to wait a few days to read this article, as the service includes all of the articles from the previous issue of Nature, two weeks prior, but not the current issue. It appears that they will have it online soon.
So I can read this journal from my home at no cost other than the taxes I'm already paying to support my local public library. Way good stuff.
Check your local library to see if they have a web site. You may be able to search their catalog online. And you may find that you can do a lot more.
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