my appeal to my college alumni association
Feb. 9th, 2013 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerDear Society of Alumni,
As a (for now) independent researcher, pursuing academic topics in my spare time away from my day job, it's a great sadness not to have access to JSTOR, as I did at Williams and when doing my master's work. JSTOR is an invaluable archive of journals (and now books) that can be searched and accessed online. Getting tasty search hits on Google and then hitting the JSTOR firewall is like being a research bird and slamming into the plate glass window of "no institutional access".
JSTOR has begun a program that allows alumni of some colleges and universities to access its resources directly. There is some information about the program here.Williams is not yet one of the colleges participating. Might it be so at some point?
regards
Jan
ETA:
Here's the reply from my undergrad alma mater.
"Thank you for your email. We think this is a great suggestion, and we are forwarding your email along to our tech team. They will decide if it is feasible for alumni to have access to JSTOR at this time. In the meantime, please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns."
Ephs FTW! Is it any wonder Williams alums are so loyal? We have an awesome college!
As a (for now) independent researcher, pursuing academic topics in my spare time away from my day job, it's a great sadness not to have access to JSTOR, as I did at Williams and when doing my master's work. JSTOR is an invaluable archive of journals (and now books) that can be searched and accessed online. Getting tasty search hits on Google and then hitting the JSTOR firewall is like being a research bird and slamming into the plate glass window of "no institutional access".
JSTOR has begun a program that allows alumni of some colleges and universities to access its resources directly. There is some information about the program here.Williams is not yet one of the colleges participating. Might it be so at some point?
regards
Jan
ETA:
Here's the reply from my undergrad alma mater.
"Thank you for your email. We think this is a great suggestion, and we are forwarding your email along to our tech team. They will decide if it is feasible for alumni to have access to JSTOR at this time. In the meantime, please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns."
Ephs FTW! Is it any wonder Williams alums are so loyal? We have an awesome college!
