I want to build an indexing engine, just for fun. In order to do so I need to learn how, this is proving difficult, I can’t seem to construct a particularly good google search. Eventually I found a promising abstract, but I can’t view the full paper unless I pay for it. I’m fairly appalled, science shouldn’t have corporate mentality when it comes to the spread of information.

I’m hoping the blame is that of the journals who publish the papers. My limited experience as a scientist would suggest that.

On matters of website usability, I would pay for the thing, but in order to even find out how much it would cost I have to register with the site, and that requires me to fill out a form with 20 fields! I can’t be arsed to register with yet-another-site, just to find out they want 30 quid for a paper.

Unfortunately I can’t seem to find a free download accidently left on some university server.