Cora, I have passed your question on to Alex Renshaw. But I don't want to get into a debate on the pricing policy of the PDF database just yet :-) Alan.
Cora Lind said: >>BTW, thanks to Alex Renshaw I have been playing with Crystallographica's >>CSM search-match application, >>http://www.crystallographica.co.uk/searchmatch/ which generates a powder >>pattern "instantly" when you click on any structure in a long Powder >>Diffraction File list, and compares it with any other - very nice. > > Nice link Alan! It certainly looks like something I'd like to check out... > Now, I must say: Interesting pricing policy! I think this is the first > piece of software I've come across that is related to the PDF database and > search/match programs offering a "student license". I doubt that there are > many students who own a personal copy of the PDF database, given that i is > not quite what you'd call cheap. So, does anybody have any experience with > such a setup? Can a student order a student license for Crystallographica > to use with his/her advisor's database? What's the requirement for > qualifying for such a student license - that it is installed on a student > computer? And can the student then use it for doing search/match on > research that was of course originally assigned by a professor? Can a > professor sit down with a student who is using the program and teach them > some necessary background knowledge without paying the 10x higher > "academic user" price? > I like the idea of offering student pricing on software, but am not sure > where to draw the line between a valid student license and the requirement > of an academic license, as the license would need to be installed on the > group's student computer that runs the PDF database (and not a personal > student laptop, which is where something like and Endnote student license > would end up). > > Cora > ******************************************* > Dr. Cora Lind > WO 2262 > Department of Chemistry, MS 602 > University of Toledo > Toledo, OH 43606-3390 > ******************************************* _____________________________________________________________ Dr Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>fax+33.476.20.76.48 +33.476.20.72.13 (.26 Mme Guillermet) http://www.ill.fr/dif/people/hewat/ _____________________________________________________________
