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Lewis S. posted on Fri, Jun 25 2010 5:53 PM

Okay, Jstor is driving me nuts.  Everytime I search a topic on the internet, a wonderful article preview pops up from Jstor, except that I can't access Jstor and they do not give individual subscriptions.  Unless I want to pay $30 per article, I can't access anything on their database.  My local library has no access, either.

Does anybody know how I can get access to their articles?  Thanks.

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any articles in particular you want?

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Not really any in particular.  Whenever I do a search for topics that I'm researching JSTOR articles pop up (the previews usually reveal them to be exactly what I need) but I can't read them.

 

 

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Your local library can access your request, they charge to print and some are not allowed to print. You could also become a student or find a friend who is a student and use their logins to access jstore from home.

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also, university libraries will sometimes let non-students buy a library card... whether that's a good deal would depend on whether you'd use the libraries other services and how much they'd charge

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Runyan replied on Fri, Jun 25 2010 7:08 PM

The library at the state university in my city grants cards to the public for a $50/year donation.  I'm not sure if that includes access to the online journal authentication proxy or if it's just for in-house use.

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Do libraries allow you to load JSTOR articles onto a thumb drive?

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Lewis S. replied on Sat, Jun 26 2010 12:46 PM

I was wondering about this myself.

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Aquila replied on Sat, Jun 26 2010 1:10 PM

My college Library card gives me access to JSTOR and many other online databases/scholarly journals for free (ignoring tuition). Maybe you know someone attending college who would let you borrow his library card and download/print out articles to your heart's content.

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At UBC Okanagan, there's nothing stopping you from loading articles on to a thumbdrive, but you need an authentication key for the proxy... I know that members of the community can get library cards, but again, not sure if it gets you in to the online databases.

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Marko replied on Mon, Jun 28 2010 11:15 AM

Yes, it is a similar problem I sometimes have.

Right now I would have liked to have the following aricles:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/4283419
http://www.jstor.org/pss/40105925
http://www.jstor.org/pss/29738495
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3004304
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4204794

If somebody has acess and the time to do it I would be grateful for any of these five .pdfs. My email is in my forum profile.

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