On 9/24/13 10:13 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 24 September 2013 14:06, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at
home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any
Australian, if they get a free library
If you've gone to university, it's well worth looking to see if your university
provide alumni access.
My university, the University of London, provide alumni access to the library
for £220 a year, which includes an eight book borrowing limit, full JSTOR
access (which doesn't have the
Tom Morris, 24/09/2013 14:18:
If you've gone to university, it's well worth looking to see if your university
provide alumni access.
Speaking of which, if you find out how many FTE the university pays for
the alumni, I'd be interested in knowing (at least some departments in
my university
It's probably worth mentioning (again) that
we started a brand new wikimedia mailing list about Open Access:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
If you are interested in the topic of access to scientific/academic
literature, you should be there.
Getting access to closed
With regards to getting access to closed journals...
I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at
home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any
Australian, if they get a free library card.
[You can see the full list at the NLA eResources
Wow Liam, I'm impressed! I'd love to have that accessibility with a library
card in Sweden.
As education is free here and universities offer various random courses one
may sign up and take a course distantly for a term or so and then through
student login get access to journals. I've never heard
In the U.S. I encourage people to check out what database subscriptions
their local public library offers -- many larger public libraries offer a
surprising number of online journals databases that are available to
anyone who has a library card, which you can generally get for free if you
live in
To echo Phoebe and Tom:
I paid $250 for a lifetime alumni card at Berkeley, not because I attended,
but because the girl I was dating at the time was an alumna (she got free
lifetime access). Seriously, access to all their libraries for $250 for
life seemed great, especially with the interlibrary
On 24 September 2013 14:06, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at
home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any
Australian, if they get a free library card.
Is this unique to Australia?
My
