Doing research can be expensive

It is probably hard to believe but we cannot Google everything. Here's an interesting example of how expensive it can be to do research.

Last November, 2006, new copyright fees from American Scientific Publishing Company were released and their scientific information got a bit more expensive. The copyright fees for articles in their journals increased from $118 to $250 per article. Yes – you just read that correctly. It was double checked with the Copyright Clearance Center.

Below you will find a list of their titles.
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics

Journal of Low Power Electronics

Sensor Letters

Journal of Bionanoscience

Journal of Biopharmaceutics and Biotechnology

Journal of Biobased Materials

Journal of Scanning Probe Microscopy

Journal of Holography and Speckle

Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing

Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence

Journal of Genome Science and Technology

Finals week Free Coffee Experiment Results are in

With a sign on the Circulation service desk on Sunday, Dec.10th, 2006, Polk Library quietly began an experimental free coffee bar during finals week for students pulling ‘all-nighters.’

Five days later, we had made approximately 988 cups of coffee.
And, we exceeded last fall's total for All Night Study users by 336! Our grand total was 2,368.

So we are going to assume that our coffee experiment was a success by the numbers and the smiles. Quite possibly we’ll try that again in Spring.

Never having to buy coffee supplies we had to guess what the demand would be.
We used:
5 large cans of coffee
12 pounds of sugar
2 1/2 large creamers
700 coffee cups
1 large pkg. napkins
5 pkgs. stir sticks