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Free papers and journals

  • 10-07-2010 6:05pm
    #1
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭


    Hi everyone!
    I apologize if this isn't the right forum to ask but I am getting so fed up. I finised my degree in nutritional science in May and am now locked out of my college database. I've started a nutrition and cooking blog in an attempt to preserve my knowledge, expand it and generally keep the new brain cells I grew from dying off while I'm unemployed. My problem is getting access to papers so I can properly research for my posts and google scholar is crap! I'm not interested in paying 30 or 40 dollars for a paper. Is there anyway a normal person can access papers and journals either for free or affordably, say through a subscription to science direct or pubmed or the likes? Is it something a county or city library has access to?
    Thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Couple of ways to do it:

    1) Become an external reader in your library, and get yourself an Athens password

    2) Get someone else's password

    3) Limit your PubMed searches to free papers

    1) is obviously the most straight down the middle one!


  • #3
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    There are quite a few free resources including this:
    "PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. "


  • #4
    lonestargirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭lonestargirl


    One thing to consider is joining some of the socities as a student member. For example, you can join the American Society for Nutrition for $30 as a student and that gives you online access to The Journal of Nutrition as part of your membership.


  • #5
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Sapsorrow


    Some great suggestions thanks very much guys! I will definately joing the ASN. I am eligable to become a member of the BNS with my degree so I wonder would that allow me access to anything else? That Plos journal is an excellent site, I'm going to join them as a student too it's only 25 dollars. What a great cause too! It's mad that there's so much money in journals and papers it's kinda wrong that it's not more accessible to the public really. I downloaded like crazy in the last few weeks of college but there's still so much more I want to look into.


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