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 loan program that
enables me to get pretty much any book I want in the entire state
university system.
Then I move to San Francisco and found the SF Public Library gives me
pretty much the same access to databases and books and all of it for $0.00.
Now I want my $250 back ;)
-Matthew
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:40 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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 the library's area (and sometimes for pay if you *don't* live in a
library's area -- especially if you are nearby). Additionally, some states
offer state-wide consortia deals on databases and subscriptions, so even
small public libraries have access to a wide range of materials. Also, if
you are close to a public university of some sort, the vast majority offer
on-site access to their online resources if you are physically on campus.
We do not, to my knowledge, have a national library program like what Liam
describes, but people in other countries should check and see if they do.
Standing offer: If you email me offlist, I will help you try to figure out
what library resources you might have access to :)
best,
Phoebe
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/09/digital-libraries/jstor-launches-jpa…
> > JSTOR Launches JPASS Access Accounts
for Individual Researchers
> > [Library Journal]
> >
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