[Aavso-photometry] Re: Help locating Article
Wolfgang Renz
w_renz at onlinehome.de
Mon Dec 6 19:57:44 EST 2004
Hello Arne
You are not right.
Just the PASP till September 1998 are accessable freely via ADS.
Hello Tim
Its really a pitty that the access to many interesting articles (for professional
AND for amateur astronomers) is restricted by big bucks.
There are too many organizations that can not be all joined just to read one
or two articles of interest every year.
So I hope that the AAVSO HQ chooses a away to not force everybody to
become a member of the AAVSO just to be able to read the enhanced
JAAVSO.
If amateurs (amateur = someone who loves his/her hobby and neither
wants to make a profession nor make a haul out of it) write for other
amateurs using freely supplied data of other amateurs, it should not end
up in commerce of any kind.
>From time to time I also wanted to read some of the newer PASP and other
Journal articles. So here is what I found out.
The ASP states at:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/access-help.pl?PASP
that:
"Access to PASP Electronic Edition:
Beginning with the October 1998 issue (vol. 110, no. 752),
access to the full text of the PASP Electronic Edition is
available only to institutional and individual subscribers. All
previous issues online (since January 1998) remain freely
accessible to anyone."
Thats the actual behaviour thats shown via the ADS service.
But the The University of Chicago Press states on:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/vendor?type=issue&journal=PASP
that:
"- Access to electronic issues of Publications of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific that are more than
three years old is available without a subscription at
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PASP/journal/. Issues from
the past three years are restricted to institutional and
individual subscribers.
- Issues of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific from 1996 and earlier are freely available from the
NASA Astrophysics Data System http://adswww.harvard.edu/
service."
The mentioned three year limit is definitly wrong. Just the 9 issues before
October 1998 are accessible freely via their site. The mentioned free
access from "1996 and earlier" is also incorrect and should read "September 1998 and earlier".
To get online access to the PASP one has to have Institutional Subscription:
http://pasp.phys.uvic.ca/subscriptions.html:
or an Individual Technical Membership:
https://www1515.boca15-verio.com/astr88/membership/renewform.html
- Technical Membership (includes subscriptions to both printed PASP and
Mercury, plus electronic PASP)
- $108, Individual
- $143, Individual (Foreign)
- E-Technical Membership (includes subscriptions to electronic-
only PASP and printed Mercury)
- $98, E-Individual
- $133, E-Individual (Foreign)
- Note: Foreign is defined as all countries outside of North America.
Non-Foreign rates are for individuals residing in Canada, Mexico,
and the United States.
The ASP offers single back issues of the PASP (just for members !)
for US$15 per issue plus US$5 (US surface) or US$10 (Foreign surface)
shipping fee.
A single printed ASP Conference Series paper costs since year 2000 US$77 for non-members plus US$7 (US surface) or US$20 (Foreign
air mail) for P&H.
Unfortrunately the ASP doesn't offer a direct online pay per article option.
But they offer a general single article copy access on:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/vendor?type=article&journal=PASP
via Infotrieve http://www.infotrieve.com and ISI http://ids.isinet.com (US
Service fee US$12.00 plus a unknown Copyright fee (usually US$5-US$20)).
I don't know how the ASP calculates the prices but its pretty uneven if
you compare a Technical Membership to an E-Technical Membership
plus 12 printed PASP per year.
Other journals of interest:
*** American Astronomical Society (AAS) for AJ/ApJ/ApJS access:
http://www.aas.org/membership/dues.html
"AAS Member Dues 2005
$115"
"Division Dues 2005
$8 - $15"
"Paid Subscriptions 2005
The following are member rates. Non-member rates are available from the journal publishers. Members can change their subscriptions on the annual renewal invoice or by contacting the Membership Department.
AJ/ApJ/ApJS Electronic Package* Electronic Only $50
*Anyone at an institution with an active site license from the University of Chicago Press will have electronic access to the Electronic Package from their office computer. AAS members who wish to have their own access, perhaps because they travel a lot, have the opportunity to purchase an electronic-only subscription to the Electronic Package. The access is controlled by password and is independent of which machine you are using. Subscription is available at the mirror sites in France and Japan."
** The Astronomical Journal (AJ):
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/order1.html:
One-Year non-member Subscription Rates for 2004-2005
U.S. CANADA MEXICO REST OF WORLD
Electronic Access Only $425.00 $425.00 $425.00 $425.00
All subscriptions entered on a calendar-year basis only.
Single Copies: $52.75
To access an article one must have a subscription or has to wait three years
(here the 3 years are real) when it becomes freely accessable online at
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/journal/available.html or via ADS.
But the AJ Electronic Edition access via the CDS site at
http://cdsaas.u-strasbg.fr:2001/AJ/journal/available.html requires an user
name + password for all issues since 1998 (!?).
** The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ):
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/order1.html:
One-Year non-member Subscription Rates for 2004-2005
No Electronic Access Only available
Single Copies: $59.00
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/subscribe.html:
"There are no single article vendors available for The Astrophysical Journal."
**The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/order1.html
One-Year non-member Subscription Rates for 2004-2005
No Electronic Access Only available
Single Copies: $25.75
** The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) together with
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/order1.html:
One-Year non-member Subscription Rates for 2004-2005
U.S. CANADA MEXICO REST OF WORLD
Electronic Access Only $1,460.00 $1,460.00 $1,460.00 $1,460.00
All subscriptions entered on a calendar-year basis only.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/issues.html:
"Issues of The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series on this site that are more than
three years old, are available without a subscription. Issues from 1996 and
earlier are freely available from the NASA Astrophysics Data System
service."
Here the 3 years are real too. But sometimes they are late a couple of month
(especially with the Letters and the Supplement).
At http://cdsaas.u-strasbg.fr:2001/ApJ/issues.html all issues since 1997
require again an user name + password.
*** Royal Astronomical Society (RAS):
http://www.ras.org.uk/html/ras_publ.html#mnras:
"Access to electronic editions of all these journals is FREE to members. Heavily discounted subscription rates are offered to Fellows for to paper editions of MN and GJI, on the understanding that journals are strictly for personal use."
http://www.ras.org.uk/html/ras_fees.html#jsubs
"Membership Fees
- Rate 3: £67:00"
"Journal subscriptions
- Monthly Notices:
Four issues per volume, 9 volumes per year (each of about 1000 pp)
2004 Prices:
- Rate 3: £205"
* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS):
The non-member MNRAS subscription fees are pretty high:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/subs.asp?ref=0035-8711&site=1
"2005 Annual Subscription The Americas* Europe(Euro zone)** Europe(non Euro zone)** Rest of World
Personal: Print + Online*** $796 €647 £431 £474
Institutional: Print + Standard Online $5383 £2913 £2913 £3204
Institutional: Premium Online Only $5114 £2767 £2767 £3044
Institutional: Print + Premium Online $5920 £3204 £3204 £3524
*Canadian customers will have 7% GST added to the prices above. Our
GST number is 130130412RT.
**EC VAT will be added at the appropriate rate for non-registered customers
in countries where this is applicable. If you are registered for VAT please
supply your registration number.
***These rates apply to subscriptions at a private address paid by personal
cheque or credit card.
To access a single MNRAS article (starting with the 1998 issues) via
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showIssues&code=mnr
one must have a subscription or has to pay US$ 25.00 for a 30 day single
article online access.
Access via ADS to published MNRAS papers and via arXiv MNRAS
astro-ph preprints untill 2001 is possible (ADS DOIs are restricted!).
Lucky one who knows someone having free access to these Journals.
Clear skies
Wolfgang
--
Wolfgang Renz, Karlsruhe, Germany
Rz.BAV = WRe.vsnet = RWG.AAVSO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arne Henden" <aah at nofs.navy.mil>
To: "Tim Crawford" <tcarchcape at yahoo.com>
Cc: <aavso-photometry at mira.aavso.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] Help locating Article
> ADS should permit downloading of a 2000-era article without
> requiring "subscribing institution" status. You have tried
> there, right?
> We've done spot filter work here as well for astrometry;
> it decreases the target brightness enough so that you can
> measure it with respect to a surrounding fainter reference
> frame. We used a more expensive solution, though - an aluminum
> spot deposited on clear glass. See the ND9 program description
> in Dahn, "Review of CCD parallax measurements", IAU Symposium 189,
> 1998, p19. Ron Stone used the camera on the 1.0m to look at
> the satellites of Mars during last year's opposition; Chris
> Tycner on our staff is using it to do photometry of bright
> Be stars. You have to be really careful with spots; they often
> have nonuniform density, are hard to flatfield, and have to
> be positioned accurately.
> Arne
>
>
> Tim Crawford wrote:
> > Trying to locate a copy of the following article:
> >
> > A Search for Planetary Transits of the Star HD 187123
> > by Spot Filter CCD Differential Photometry
> >
> > Castellano, T. 2000, PASP,112,821C
> >
> > Can anyone help with this search? Apparently PASP
> > will not let me download as I am not a member of a
> > "subscribing institution."
> >
> > CS
> >
> >
> > Tim Crawford (CTX)
> >
> >
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