The Benifits Being A CIGRE Member For Doctorate Student

Being a student and researcher, I have to read a number of research results and discussion by other researchers. This is more important in the case of a doctorate student as the student needs to produce journal papers in order to have originality in the idea for the paper to be accepted as article of the journal. That is not to repeat other's research. Intensive literature review is needed to ensure that we do not repeat whatever others has done in our pursit of the degree.

So, the starting point of a doctorate student is search of papers or literature review and over the years, I have obtained a lot of articles in IEEE website, through Uniten's library subscription of IEEE journals.

However, since Uniten did not subsribe to CIGRE journal, I had missed the opportunity to obtain the knowledge and resources free of charge. In addition, Tsukuba University which I am affiliated now also do not subscribe to CIGRE.

CIGRE journals are expensive. It costs a minimum of 25 Euro for one journal and a maximum of 40 Euro on the expensive side. So, I decided to become a member of CIGRE -Japanese National Comittee in order to try my luck in getting any discounts for these journals. So, I wrote an email to Ms. Naomi Kanechika , visited her to pay the registration fee of CIGRE and I am now a CIGRE member.

I did the search on CIGRE website today - It is to my surprise that I can now download all the journals for free !

A great addition to the invitation as a young delegate to CIGRE conference this August 2008 !