[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 52

[Peter Bogdanoff]

The article PDF in question has this:

"Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.”

So, here it is, but don’t sell it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qy0fkopkung80wy/mason2016.pdf?dl=0


On Sep 26, 2016, at 12:02 PM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com> wrote:

> On 26/09/2016 18:32, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Good update, Peter.  Happy anniversary.
>> 
>> Of particular interest to me was this item:
>> 
>>  Research presented at ICER2016 showed lower overall cognitive
>>  load for LiveCode developers
>>  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2960310.2960321
>> 
>> Unfortunately that article is behind the ACM's paywall.
>> 
>> Anyone here know if that article is also available through a
>> publicly-accessible source?
> 
> It was available a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> Now, online copyright infringement is a terrible thing, and so I very strongly recommend that you do not visit https://moscow.sci-hub.ac/, and don't type "Flipping the Assessment of Cognitive Load: Why and How" into its search box, and _definitely_ don't click the button with a picture of a key next to it.
> 
> After all, anyone would agree that the amount that academic publishers charge for access to the articles they publish is totally reasonable, considering that the great costs of getting researchers to write papers (for free) and getting other researchers to review them (also for free).
> 
> So I strongly recommend that you go ahead and pay the very modest $15 that the ACM are asking for.  How else than by charging for each and every download of every publication can they further their stated purpose of "... serving both professional and public interests by fostering the open interchange of information..."?
> 
>                                     Peter
> 
> -- 
> Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> LiveCode Technical Project Manager
> 
> lcb-mode for Emacs: https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode
> 
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode