Anyone know how do I get a pasword for Jstor.org, the research site if I am not a student?

[zonkers]

I keep hitting their subscription page and it is irritating. on edit -- I dont feel like going to a University Library. I'd like to work from the comfort of my home.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I don't know, but I've had good luck with the google scholar site.

[zonkers]

2. thanks, have no idea what it is but i will google it!

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Here's the link.

http://scholar.google.com/


Google has a plethora of great specialized search sites. I use them all the time for work.

From the google home page, just go to more and there they are.

[naturalselection]

4. zonkers, I am in academia and working on my Ph.D

and can tell you from experience that google scholar links to a number of e-journals, including j-stor. I have had some luck with google scholar, but the university I work at I believe had to pay to get a subscription to j-stor. I know they had to do that with BioOne, too.

But google scholar is not bad.

[zonkers]

5. I liked my test drive of google scholar. I had already known about google books which seems to

come up with some of the same results. At jstor, there is a list of all the institutions that subscribe to it. My friend works at a University, I will hound him for his password. I wish I would have stayed in Academia -- Twenty years later and I finally have the patience to do and enjoy the research I loathed as an undergrad. Grrrrrr.

[ellisonz]

6. I have a "collegue" at school...

with the JSTOR logo tattooed on his lower left inside arm.

It's hilarious.

[zonkers]

7. Bwahh!!! Bet it was art school. Maybe a semotics major?...

I knew a guy who used to get a new smerf tattooed on his body everytime got a paycheck. His back was an entire baseball field of smerfs in every position.

[ellisonz]

8. Not art school, but I can tell you for a fact he loves his semiotics.

Smerfs? :rofl:

[zonkers]

9. I can smell overeducated nihilistic art nerds a mile away. Wonder if he read Bourroughs or

listened to Nick Cave.

[ellisonz]

12. Nah...he's actually kinda of a yuppie emo tool.

He also has a really sweat tat of the Moniter and the Merrimack, one of his ancestors was the Captain on the Moniter.

[zonkers]

14. Wow, I'm reading about the Civil war Ironclads right now. Amazing era in history.

[MountainLaurel]

10. Pay a few thousand for a subscription n/t

[ganeshji]

11. Offer your first born child.

If you find out a way, please let me know.

:hi:

[NJCher]

13. really easy

Take a course at a community college. They hardly cost anything and then you have access to all kinds of journals and databases.

I don't know about where you are but here in NJ, one of the most well organized online access to scholarly databases is at a community college:

www.bergen.edu

I know that doesn't help for tonight but it sounds like a number of people on this thread would like online access. That's how to do it.

Oh and audit the course if you don't feel like attending much or endangering a GPA.



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