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Athens Log In / Journal Headaches

  • 25-10-2009 10:10am
    #1
    samsamson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭


    Trying to access journals online is doing my head in.

    1) For example, I find an article I want to access on SpringerLink, and it tells me to log in. So I select Ireland; University College Dublin; and enter my student name and password.

    And it says they're incorrect. Is there some other name/password I'm mean to be using?


    2) I'm searching the library website for an article which has been referenced elsewhere. I found the journal and go to whatever website it's archives are stored in, then find the exact volume etc. and locate the original article. However, even though I've done all this through UCD's website, it insists that I have to pay $30 to read the article.

    Surely if UCD is linking to these places I should be free to read the articles?

    Any help much appreciated! :(


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  • #2
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Have you tried going in through UCD Connect? I just tried that and can access journals.

    When I read your description, my first thought was that eproxy.ucd.ie was down again. This is the server that authenticates you to these external journal sites, and went down a couple of weeks ago, but it's working now.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #3
    Notorious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭Notorious


    samsamson wrote: »
    However, even though I've done all this through UCD's website, it insists that I have to pay $30 to read the article.

    Surely if UCD is linking to these places I should be free to read the articles?

    Any help much appreciated! :(

    There are some articles that UCD hasn't paid to provide access to - all you can do with these id read the intro. Maybe you can ask someone in the library to have the fee paid? I don't know.

    I always find that logging into the library website from your UCD connect while on campus is the most headache-free way to use the Athens system. The whole thing is a pain in the balls though. You think UCD would reorganise the way it works to make it a bit easier for us students. I know a lot of final year students who just stay away from online journals because they can't figure it all out.


  • #4
    samsamson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭samsamson


    Thanks guys, going into UCD connect, then the My Library tab and searching from there (rather than the ucd.ie library website and logging in there) made a significant difference.

    Agreed that a more user friendly system really should be implemented.


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