<p>Where do you guys get your info, outside of school? I've got a few texts but that's it...journal articles would be nice, but there's no way in hell I'm paying for those subscriptions. I know some of you have said your school has access, and you guys...and you all are really freakin' lucky people. Any suggestions? Local uni library, maybe?</p>
<p>I have a subscription to Scientific American, which is not much. However I do have the Cleveland Public Library system, the #3 research library in the country.</p>
<p>Wikipedia.</p>
<p>ditto that</p>
<p>go to your local community college library and see if they have subscriptions to things like proquest etc. which are big compilations of academic journals and newspapers and things. You can also pay for a subscrpition for proquest but i dont know how much it costs also you hs might have a subscription</p>
<p>with relation to text-books:
1. Halliday-Resnick-Walker...Its a very good Physics referance bookwritten by preffesors at RPI for College students.
2. I.E Irodov...for many decades now, this has been considered one of the most toughest Physics books to tame. If you manage to solve this book, i'll worship you and bathe you in milk. But, trust, me its fun to solve these problems.
3. Solomon Fryle...Very good book for Organic Chemistry.
4. Ebbing...Very good book for Inorganic Chemistry.
5. Calculus with Maple Labs...i loved this book. Not only is it real in-depth and advanced, it also has occasional math jokes.
6. University Physics...this I had the privilage of reading just twice at the library, but it was real good.</p>
<p>Yeah, our school has Proquest but I thought it was just for news articles, for some odd reason...thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out. Nice text suggestions...I'm admittedly more of a bio gal but some of those sound interesting.
And yesssss x 10 for Wikipedia.</p>
<p>Scientific American
Wikipedia
Random searches on Google (learning about different people)
Reading biographies (I've read stuff of Feynman, Oppenheimer, Tesla, etc.)
Textbooks...but I really only use it for class. I'll look up something that sounds interesting at times though</p>
<p>my school treats wikipedia as the devil</p>
<p>For science, especially Comp Sci, Engineering, etc, Wikipedia is a good place to start. My school has a lot of journals, etc in our library.</p>
<p>Concur w/ sr6622, reading biographies is some of the best stuff you can do. I've read a lot of literature on people from einstein to conway, galileo to leibinez, etc. The stories behind these people are amazing.</p>
<p>If you find the whole set of Feynman physics lectures that would serve you well in mastering the subject.</p>
<p>I was always a fan of Discover and Scientific American. Oh, and living in the bookstore but never buying anything. :)
If you've a space bent universetoday.com is also good for hearing the latest space-y news and things.</p>