Re: Weekly posting summary

whisky-dave wrote:
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>>> "H Duffy" <hester_duffy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Erm, not universally, by any means; while I'm not a professor in the
UK 
>>>> or US sense, I mark students' assignments,a nd they get marked down
if 
>>>> their references consist of a list of URLs.
>>> I'm not sure what they do here but I wouldthink that method is bad 
>>> practice
>>> and open to abuse,
>> You'd be quite wrong; it's common practice, and not in any way wrong. 
>> That's what Universities have libraries for, y'see.
> They also have cafeterias, prisons have libraries too,   so what,
> 
> 
>> a buy or 'obtain' my book or I'll mark you down isn;t
>>> soemthing I would likoe to see.
>> We don't insist they _buy_ the books, just that they read them.
> And how will they read them if the don't buy them ?
> 
>> And we give them access to a library, so they can find books,and read 
>> them, free of cost.
> we have classses of 100 or more how many books would they library have
to
>  buy from the publishers, and whaty if the book should only be availible
in
> hard back at £80 a copy ?
> I've known our library to be short enough of fund not to be able to buy 
> enough
> books for our courses and that's in plain paperback form.
> 
> Why shouldn't students have the right to reference on-line publications
?
> 
> 
> 
The real question you suggest is there in your last line, and the answer 
is easy:

If it's an on-line (electronic) version of a print publication, you can 
provide more than a URL for reference;  you can provide the publication 
information for the paper version.


-- Troia