Thanks, Stephen--this is good advice. However, as to asking institutions to
help, the copyright madness has created a situation where licensing
restrictions allow universities to give access only to people enrolled or
employed. This is why I simply could not convince UCLA to extend my
privileges even for a month or two.
This whole licensing thing has been a big eye opener for me. I somehow
never thought of information as being owned, but of course it is.
Paul
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Subject: [tips] Repeat request re: research databases
On 25 Oct 2006 at 14:35, Paul Okami wrote:
I've been associated with UCLA for my
entire research career and have no idea how
unaffiliated researchers who
do not live near a good university library (or are homebound for other >
reasons, such as disability) do their research--that is, gain access
to full-texts of online research articles from professional journals.
Are there commercially-run databases out there which
you can subscribe to
and will license articles to you?
I think it's possible to get quite a bit of what you need without access
to restricted databases. For research published in the last few years,
all you need is the author's e-mail address, and that's usually easy to
get (e.g. by checking at the author's university, or in abstracts of the
author's work provided by the journal or on PubMed).
Once you have the address, an e-mailed request usually produces a pdf
within a few days, sometimes within a few hours.
In addition, many journals give free access to issues older than 6 months
or a year, and the open access movement is spreading. And when all else
fails, you can always ask a better endowed colleague (I mean with
journal access!) to help.
The main problem would be old literature (say 10 or more years ago) where
commercial databases are usually no help anyway. That's where you have to
have access to an inter-library loan service or visit a university which
holds the journal. But generally, I think one can do pretty well with
what's available for free and what you can get by asking.
Stephen
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