Mine’s Emerald Insight. Why? They provide such clear text, as opposed to the fuzzy text from JSTOR, or other Journal archive sites (ABI/Inform, EBSCOHost, that sort of thing). ScienceDirect (Part of Reed Elsevier) occasionally does provide clear text in their PDFs, but generally, the older the article, the more it looks like it was being scanned. Never encountered too many Blackwell Synergy papers.
Which is why I’m a bit pissy right now, because Emerald Insight won’t get me full text to one article I want. Instead, I have to go to ABI/Inform… which has lower quality text. Bleh.
What’s YOUR favourite journal provider?
As far as I’m concerned, if I have the article, the quality is another matter all together.
Hmm, don’t you want to read legible papers instead of blur fuzz?
Anyways, I found out that the reason why Emerald Insight won’t let me download full text was because of something silly – an expired cookie. Had to relogin at the uni library. durrr.
They’re usually legible, just not always entirely clear, but legible. Anyway, my management dept. (the only place where quoting articles is needed much) wants recent articles, so those tend to be nice PDFs with text as text instead of images.
After reading 30+ papers for a stupid literature review assignment (and I’m too cheapskate to print), you really feel like whacking somebody’s head for not OCRing the papers properly (JSTOR, I’m talking about you!!!)… I mean, like the title is “Conceptualizing…”, but when I copy and paste the title into MSWord’s Citation Manager, it reads “ConceDtualizina…”
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