I have a suggestion for those who don’t want to abuse university resources. Some universities give donors to the library access to journals. I’ll be graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park, soon and I’m fully addicted to journals in basically every subject, so I intend to take advantage of their Friends of The Libraries Borrowers Program. This, unfortunately, is not free, but it’s well worth the money to me.
This program would also give me access to the library’s Interlibrary Loan services, which I’ve found to be incredibly useful for obscure papers and books.
I did that with my local UCLA library, but it didn’t give me electronic access to papers off-campus, nor access to interlibrary loan. But I’m moving to the Bay Area and I hear the San Francisco library system is better about that.
Scribd used to be a very nice Scholars Bay, but it seems to have gone legit.
I’ve posted some advice on How to Get Academic Papers for Free.
Great advice Luke.
I have a suggestion for those who don’t want to abuse university resources. Some universities give donors to the library access to journals. I’ll be graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park, soon and I’m fully addicted to journals in basically every subject, so I intend to take advantage of their Friends of The Libraries Borrowers Program. This, unfortunately, is not free, but it’s well worth the money to me.
This program would also give me access to the library’s Interlibrary Loan services, which I’ve found to be incredibly useful for obscure papers and books.
I did that with my local UCLA library, but it didn’t give me electronic access to papers off-campus, nor access to interlibrary loan. But I’m moving to the Bay Area and I hear the San Francisco library system is better about that.