journal access

One of my biggest upsets/pet-peeves at Hampshire is the library's access to journals. You do some pretty great searching, find the articles that you NEED, and cross your fingers. Praying to whom/whatever does not seem to help. Occasionally, that article that you need is accessible at Hampshire. More often than not, it's not. Hampshire doesn't have all the money that many more established colleges might. As such, we don't have the library services that other colleges might. Often this can be remedied with a trip to UMass down the road or through inter-library loan (you can request a journal article that we don't have, and usually within a week, a photocopy of it magically appears for your higlighting pleasure). What if it just worked though? What if you could do research, and simply click, and there it is?

I admit I didn't know what I was missing. I was able to deal with the planning ahead that is required in doing research at Hampshire.

The NIH has subscriptions to everything. Just click, and there it is. In PDF, HTML, or other formats. From multiple sources. It's just so easy. And crazy expensive. Again, your tax dollars at work.