Originally Posted by
MakeOptics
Well put. I am a member of the OSA the value is there with I think 20 article downloads a year that's a value of roughly $600, I was spoiled for years living near the National Library of Medicine so could pull unlimited amounts of research as time permitted. Then I moved near Johns Hopkins, so I paid a student every year for his username password for the schools VPN which again allowed me to pull unlimited amounts of research. Now the best thing I have is OSA for the 20 articles, I pull them sparingly but still feel anemic with only roughly 2 research articles per month, and even then sometimes the summary is a bit misleading and I pull a dud, or the research lead nowhere tangible.
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