Question:
Does anyone ever check out books from the science stacks? Dont we all just get our info from online articles?
1 year 43 weeks ago
Answer(s):
I've checked out books from the science stacks. Although some of the books are hard to find (at least for me), they offer access to valuable information that is hard to find online.
1 year 43 weeks ago
I have checked out books there several times. The vast majority of journal articles are online, but sometimes a paper will reference a book and you need to go look it up to see what they're talking about
1 year 43 weeks ago
You can't always find what you want from an article, and the science stacks have pretty extensive resources all in one place. Sometimes it's easier to get information from a book where someone has already compiled information from many sources together for you.
1 year 41 weeks ago
Both have pros and cons.
Books are more exhaustive on a single topic, wheras the interwebs will give you some knowledge about a large variety of things.
1 year 40 weeks ago
Yes there is some information in there that you can't simply look up online because it might not be reliable
1 year 13 weeks ago