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 of a public library
making this available through a library card here in Sweden.
*Be Bold!
Sophie Österberg
sosterberg(a)wikimedia.org*
*Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a
gift of free knowledge to humanity. *
2013/9/24 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>
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 page:
http://www.nla.gov.au
/app/eresources/ ]
Is this unique to Australia? I must admit that I didn't realise until
recently the extent of the restricted databases that were available for
free to library card holders in their own home. With all the discussion
over the years on the global Wikimedia mailing lists about trying to
special access for Wikimedians, I had just assumed it was a global issue.
But, at least for Australians, it's largely solved... Are other country's
major libraries offering journal access to the public for free? If not,
perhaps rather than trying to get special access for Wikimedians directly
from the Database companies, we should be working to get access via Library
subscriptions?
Liam / Wittylama.
[p.s. yes - I realise I'm promoting a service offered by my employer,
sorry. But I reckon it's relevant and important that people know though.
p.p.s. If you are Australian and want a free library card sent to you - go
here:
http://www.nla.gov.au/getalibrarycard/ ]
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata
On 24 September 2013 12:48, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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" journals is definetely something that we like
and must pursue,
but changing the very system of is more important.
We shouldn't have this issue at all :-)
Aubrey
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
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
limitation that JPASS has), Oxford
DNB
access and some other online resources.
Some universities also charge the even better price of nothing.
I've put up a page in project space on English Wikipedia so we can
document which institutions provide access:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR/Alumni_access
--
Tom Morris
http://tommorris.org/
On 24 September 2013 at 12:56:18, David Gerard (dgerard(a)gmail.com)
wrote:
fyi
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kathleen McCook <klmccook(a)gmail.com>
Date: 24 September 2013 12:25
Subject: [WikiEN-l] access to journals
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
In an effort to enhance access options for people who aren’t
affiliated with universities, colleges, or high schools,
not-for-profit digital library JSTOR has launched JPASS, a new program
offering individual users access to 1,500 journals from JSTOR’s
archive collection. The move follows the March 2012 launch of JSTOR’s
Register & Readprogram, which allowed independent researchers to
register for a free MyJSTOR account, and receive free, online-only
access to three full-text articles every 14 days. That service has
since attracted almost one million users including independent
scholars, writers, business people, adjunct faculty, and others, and
JSTOR plans to continue offering the service in its current form.
However, in a recent survey, many of Register & Read users expressed
interest in an individual subscription model that would offer enhanced
access, encouraging JSTOR to move ahead with JPASS.
JSTOR
Launches JPASS Access Accounts for Individual Researchers
[Library Journal]
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